Topological domain structure of the Escherichia coli chromosome

Genes and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1766-1779

  Postow, Lisa ^a   Hardy, Christine D ^a   Arsuaga, Javier ^a   Cozzarelli, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial chromosome; Electron microscopy; Microarrays; Supercoiling; Topological domains

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CALCULATION; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ECORI; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 3142774839     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1207504     Document Type: Article

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