Chromosome Partitioning in Escherichia coli in the Absence of Dam-Directed Methylation |
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| Authors: | Daniel Vinella Aline Jaff Richard D'ari Masamichi Kohiyama and Patrick Hughes |
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| Affiliation: | Institut Jacques Monod, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris, France. |
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| Abstract: | Escherichia coli dam mutants, lacking the GATC DNA methylase, do not produce anucleate cells at high frequencies, suggesting that hemimethylation of the chromosome origin of replication, oriC, is not essential for correct chromosome partitioning. |
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