Gene essentiality determines chromosome organisation in bacteria

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 6570-6577

  Rocha, Eduardo P C ^a,b   Danchin, Antoine ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ASSIGNMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0344668838     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg859     Document Type: Article

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