Entropy-driven spatial organization of highly confined polymers: Lessons for the bacterial chromosome

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 33, 2006, Pages 12388-12393

  Jun, Suckjoon ^a   Mulder, Bela ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacterial chromosome segregation; Caulobacter crescentus; Escherichia coli; Polymer physics

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; ENTROPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMERS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33747615506     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0605305103     Document Type: Article

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