Article
The dif resolvase locus of the Escherichia coli chromosome can be replaced by a 33-bp sequence, but function depends on location.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Feb 1995
Tecklenburg M, Naumer A, Nagappan O, Kuempel P
Abstract excerpt
The dif locus (deletion-induced filamentation) of Escherichia coli is a resolvase site, located in the terminus region of the chromosome, that reduces chromosome multimers to monomers. In strains in which this site has been deleted, a fraction of the cells is filamentous, has abnormal nucleoid st...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Cell Division
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Bacterial
- DNA Replication
- DNA, Bacterial
- Escherichia coli
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Recombination, Genetic
- Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Restriction Mapping