Underlying regularity in the shapes of nucleoids of Escherichia coli: Implications for nucleoid organization and partition

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 256-265

  Zimmerman, Steven B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome; Escherichia coli; Flexible doublet model; Nucleoid; Partition; Spheroplast

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CHLORAMPHENICOL; PUROMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHEROPLAST; TECHNIQUE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0037403499     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-8477(02)00637-8     Document Type: Article

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