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SUBMITTER: Oliva MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3356609 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oliva María A MA Martin-Galiano Antonio J AJ Sakaguchi Yoshihiko Y Andreu José M JM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120426 20
Partition systems are responsible for the process whereby large and essential plasmids are accurately positioned to daughter cells during bacterial division. They are typically made of three components: a centromere-like DNA zone, an adaptor protein, and an assembling protein that is either a Walker-box ATPase (type I) or an actin-like ATPase (type II). A recently described type III segregation system has a tubulin/FtsZ-like protein, called TubZ, for plasmid movement. Here, we present the 2.3 Å ...[more]