Transcription-coupled nucleoid architecture in bacteria

Genes to Cells

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1141-1152

  Ohniwa, Ryosuke L ^a   Morikawa, Kazuya ^b   Takeshita, Sayaka L ^b   Kim, Joongbaek ^a   Ohta, Toshiko ^b   Wada, Chieko ^a,c   Takeyasu, Kunio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c Yoshida Biological Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; PROTEINASE K; RIBONUCLEASE A; RIBONUCLEASE H; RIBONUCLEASE III; RIFAMPICIN; SINGLE STRANDED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA; DNA, BACTERIAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; RIBONUCLEASE, PANCREATIC; RNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 34848844718     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2007.01125.x     Document Type: Article

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