title: Cell cycle: the bacterial approach to coordination.
abstract: Despite the power of bacterial genetics, the prokaryotic cell cycle has remained poorly understood. But recent work with three different bacterial species has shed light on how chromosomes and plasmids are oriented and partitioned during the cell cycle, and on mechanisms regulating the initiation of DNA replication.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Building 68-530, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Levin
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Grossman
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000166:cytology*; D002453:Cell Cycle; D002876:Chromosomes, Bacterial; D008954:Models, Biological