In vivo supercoiling of plasmid and chromosomal DNA in an Escherichia coli hns mutant

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3528-3533

  Mojica, Francisco J M ^a   Higgins, Christopher F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; DNA TOPOISOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA SUPERCOILING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030977555     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.11.3528-3533.1997     Document Type: Article

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