Competing ParA structures space bacterial plasmids equally over the nucleoid.
Low copy number plasmids in bacteria require segregation for stable inheritance through cell division. This is often achieved by a parABC locus, comprising an ATPase ParA, DNA-binding protein ParB and a parC region, encoding ParB-binding sites. These minimal components space plasmids equally over th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-12-01
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| Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004009 |