Mechanism of DNA segregation in prokaryotes: replicon pairing by parC of plasmid R1.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on July 21, 1998

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R B Jensen1, R Lurz, K Gerdes

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1: Department of Molecular Biology, Odense University, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark.

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