Segregation of chromosome arms in growing and non-growing Escherichia coli cells
In slow-growing Escherichia coli cells the chromosome is organized with its left (L) and right (R) arms lying separated in opposite halves of the nucleoid and with the origin (O) in-between, giving the pattern L-O-R. During replication one of the arms has to pass the other to obtain the same organiz...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-05-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00448/full |