Unique Function of the Bacterial Chromosome Segregation Machinery in Apically Growing Streptomyces - Targeting the Chromosome to New Hyphal Tubes and its Anchorage at the Tips.

The coordination of chromosome segregation with cell growth is fundamental to the proliferation of any organism. In most unicellular bacteria, chromosome segregation is strictly coordinated with cell division and involves ParA that moves the ParB nucleoprotein complexes bi- or unidirectionally towar...

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Main Authors: Agnieszka Kois-Ostrowska, Agnieszka Strzałka, Natalia Lipietta, Emma Tilley, Jolanta Zakrzewska-Czerwińska, Paul Herron, Dagmara Jakimowicz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-12-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5157956?pdf=render