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SUBMITTER: Sharp MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2885158 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sharp Marc D MD Pogliano Kit K
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20020101 5552
SpoIIIE mediates postseptational chromosome partitioning in Bacillus subtilis, but the mechanism controlling the direction of DNA transfer remains obscure. Here, we demonstrated that SpoIIIE acts as a DNA exporter: When SpoIIIE was synthesized in the larger of the two cells necessary for sporulation, the mother cell, DNA was translocated into the smaller forespore; however, when it was synthesized in the forespore, DNA was translocated into the mother cell. Furthermore, the DNA-tracking domain o ...[more]