Transient growth arrest in Escherichia coli induced by chromosome condensation.

MukB is a bacterial SMC (structural maintenance of chromosome) protein that regulates the global folding of the Escherichia coli chromosome by bringing distant DNA segments together. We report that moderate overproduction of MukB may lead, depending on strain and growth conditions, to transient grow...

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Main Authors: Andrea L Edwards, Dipen P Sangurdekar, Kyeong S Jeong, Arkady B Khodursky, Valentin V Rybenkov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3871593?pdf=render