title: Bacteria spring a surprise.
abstract: Elastic forces within DNA drive the segregation of chromosomes in bacteria.
authors: Ramanujam Srinivasan is in the Centre for Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India kuruhoornambi@gmail.com.
authors: Ramanujam
authors: R
authors: Srinivasan
authors: Mohan K Balasubramanian is at the Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, and the Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, the Department of Biological Sciences and the Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore m.k.balasubramanian@warwick.ac.uk.
authors: Mohan K
authors: MK
authors: Balasubramanian
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D016935:Caulobacter crescentus / Q000235:genetics*; D020090:Chromosome Segregation; D002876:Chromosomes, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial
keywords: Caulobacter crescentus; DNA partitioning; Par system; chromosome dynamics; intracellular transport