title: Mechanisms for chromosome segregation.
abstract: Bacteria face the problem of segregating their gigantic chromosomes without a segregation period restricted in time and space, as Eukaryotes do. Segregation thus involves multiple activities, general or specific of a chromosome region and differentially controlled. Recent advances show that these various mechanisms conform to a “pair and release” rule, which appears as a general rule in DNA segregation. We describe the latest advances in segregation of bacterial chromosomes with emphasis on the different pair and release mechanisms.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Microbiologie et de Génétique Moléculaires, CNRS, F-31000 Toulouse, France
authors.forename: Jean-Yves
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Bouet
authors.forename: Mathieu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stouf
authors.forename: Elise
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lebailly
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cornet
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D002455:Cell Division / Q000235:genetics; D020090:Chromosome Segregation / Q000235:genetics*; D002876:Chromosomes, Bacterial; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics; D018741:Replication Origin