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SUBMITTER: Chen AH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3480399 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Anna H AH Afonso Bruno B Silver Pamela A PA Savage David F DF
PloS one 20121024 10
The spatial and temporal control of chromosome duplication and segregation is crucial for proper cell division. While this process is well studied in eukaryotic and some prokaryotic organisms, relatively little is known about it in prokaryotic polyploids such as Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942, which is known to possess one to eight copies of its single chromosome. Using a fluorescent repressor-operator system, S. elongatus chromosomes and chromosome replication forks were tagged and visualized ...[more]