Bacteria spring a surprise

Elife. 2014 Jun 24:3:e03435. doi: 10.7554/eLife.03435.

¹ Ramanujam Srinivasan is in the Centre for Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India kuruhoornambi@gmail.com.
² 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.

Abstract

Elastic forces within DNA drive the segregation of chromosomes in bacteria.

Keywords: Caulobacter crescentus; DNA partitioning; Par system; chromosome dynamics; intracellular transport.