Open AccessParM pushes plasmids apart
Author(s) -
Nicole LeBrasseur
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the journal of cell biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.414
H-Index - 380
eISSN - 1540-8140
pISSN - 0021-9525
DOI - 10.1083/jcb.1795iti5
Subject(s) - biology , plasmid , computational biology , genetics , dna
![Graphic][1] Plasmids (green) are pushed (left to right) around a bacterium by polymerizing filaments of ParM (red). A bacterial protein that looks like actin but acts like microtubules makes a Sisyphean effort to push plasmids apart, as revealed in videos by [Campbell and Mullins
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