DNA POLYMERASE III HOLOENZYME Multisubunit protein complex responsible for the bulk of chromosome replication in bacteria.
ENDOSPORE A type of spore that develops within the cytoplasm of an enveloping mother cell or sporangium.
EUBACTERIA All prokaryotes excluding the Archaea.
HOLLIDAY JUNCTION INTERMEDIATE An X-shaped DNA structure formed during recombination, after strand exchange between homologous DNA duplexes.
MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS Plasmids, transposons and insertion elements that can readily spread from genome to genome and/or from cell to cell.
NUCLEOID Equivalent to the nucleus of bacteria, in the absence of a nuclear membrane.
RELAXOSOME COMPLEX Complex of a Tra protein bound to its DNA recognition site (oriT), at which a single-stranded nick occurs to initiate DNA transfer.
ROLLING-CIRCLE DNA REPLICATION Form of DNA replication on a circular template in which a single DNA strand is synthesized, continuously displacing the non-template strand.
WALKER A AND B MOTIFS Highly conserved short-sequence motifs found in numerous proteins that bind and sometimes hydrolyse ATP.
