Chromosomal anchors
RacA anchors bacterial chromosomes to the cell poles.
Dec 19, 2002
Transmission of DNA requires that the sister chromosomes are pulled to opposite poles of the cell before division. Eukaryotic cells have a specific spindle apparatus which anchors the chromosomes during mitosis, but no analogous structure has been identified during chromosome segregation in bacteria. In the December 19
Ben-Yehuda et al. examined the genes and proteins involved in the sporulation in