FtsK, a literate chromosome segregation machine
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A Defined Terminal Region of the E. coli Chromosome Shows Late Segregation and High FtsK Activity
BACKGROUND The FtsK DNA-translocase controls the last steps of chromosome segregation in E. coli. It translocates sister chromosomes using the KOPS DNA motifs to orient its activity, and controls the resolution of dimeric forms of sister chromosomes by XerCD-mediated recombination at the dif site and their decatenation by TopoIV. METHODOLOGY We have used XerCD/dif recombination as a genetic t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Microbiology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0950-382X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05755.x