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SUBMITTER: Hwang LC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3642677 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The EMBO journal 20130226 9
DNA segregation ensures the stable inheritance of genetic material prior to cell division. Many bacterial chromosomes and low-copy plasmids, such as the plasmids P1 and F, employ a three-component system to partition replicated genomes: a partition site on the DNA target, typically called parS, a partition site binding protein, typically called ParB, and a Walker-type ATPase, typically called ParA, which also binds non-specific DNA. In vivo, the ParA family of ATPases forms dynamic patterns over ...[more]