Robust and conserved stochastic self-assembly mechanism for dynamic ParB-parS partition complexes on bacterial chromosomes and plasmids
Roxanne Diaz, Aurore Sanchez, Jérôme Rech, Delphine Labourdette, Jérôme Dorignac, Frédéric Geniet, John Palmeri, Andrea Parmeggiani, François Boudsocq, Véronique Le Berre, Jean‐Charles Walter, Jean‐Yves Bouet
The paper identifies the Nucleation & Caging model as the mechanism for ParB-parS partition complex formation, showing it is conserved across plasmids and chromosomes.
Molecular Systems Biology · Nov 1, 2018Peer-reviewedSystems Biology