Article
Mutants defective in chromosome partitioning in E. coli.
Research in microbiology - 1 Jan 2000
Hiraga S, Niki H, Imamura R, Ogura T, Yamanaka K, Feng J, Ezaki B, Jaffé A
Abstract excerpt
Recent experimental results suggest that replicated daughter chromosomes (nucleoids) in Escherichia coli move non-progressively and abruptly at an early stage of the D (division) period from midcell toward the cell quarter positions, which will become the centres of the daughter cells. The chromosome positioning at the quarter positions was found to be controlled by the muk gene products. In muk mutants, normal...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacterial Proteins
- Cell Division
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Bacterial
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Protein Conformation