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DNA segregation by bacterial actin homologs
1Division of Biological Sciences, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Developmental Cell
|January 16, 2004
Abstract:
The bacterial actin homolog ParM catalyzes segregation of plasmid DNA in E. coli. Recent studies now suggest a model in which ParM forms actin-like filaments between two plasmid molecules, thereby providing the driving force for plasmid DNA separation.