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Cell cycle arrest in Era GTPase mutants: a potential growth rate-regulated checkpoint in Escherichia coli.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Feb 1998
Britton R A, Powell B S, Dasgupta S, Sun Q, Margolin W, Lupski J R, Court D L
Abstract excerpt
Era is a low-molecular-weight GTPase essential for Escherichia coli viability. The gene encoding Era is found in the rnc operon, and the synthesis of both RNase III and Era increases with growth rate. Mutants that are partially defective in Era GTPase activity or that are reduced in the synthesis of wild-type Era become arrested in the cell cycle at the predivisional two-cell stage. The partially defective Era...
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