Grasping at origins.
Chromosome segregation in the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus involves propulsion of the replication origin and its capture at one pole of the cell. Bowman et al. (2008) and Ebersbach et al. (2008) now report the discovery of a protein called PopZ that mediates this chromosome capture.
Ramamurthi
Kumaran S
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Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. kumaran@mcb.harvard.edu
Losick
Richard
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