Movement and equipositioning of plasmids by ParA filament disassembly

Bacterial plasmids encode partitioning (par) loci that confer stable plasmid inheritance. We showed previously that, in the presence of ParB and parC encoded by the par2 locus of plasmid pB171, ParA formed cytoskeletal-like structures that dynamically relocated over the nucleoid. Simultaneously, the...

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Main Authors: Ringgaard, Simon (Author), van Zon, Jeroen Sebastiaan (Contributor), Howard, Martin (Author), Gerdes, Kenn (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences, 2010-09-17T13:18:43Z.
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