E. coliの電子冷凍顕微鏡検査は,プラズミドDNA分離に関与するフィラメント束を明らかにする

Jeanne Salje1, Benoît Zuber, Jan Löwe

  • 1Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK. jsalje@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|December 20, 2008
PubMed
まとめ

バクテリアのアクチンホモログのParMフィラメントは,プラズミドDNA分離を駆動する. 研究者は,これらのParM線をEscherichia coliで冷凍電子トモグラフィを用いて視覚化し,その近くにある核状縁の位置を観察した.

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