Strong intranucleoid interactions organize the Escherichia colichromosome into a nucleoid filament

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

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4991-4995

  Wiggins, Paul A ^a   Cheveralls, Keith C ^a,b   Martin, Joshua S ^a,b   Lintner, Robert ^a   Kondev, Jané ^b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome segregation; Chromosome structure; Nucleoid structure; Polymer physics

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; POLYMER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC LOCI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77950455981     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912062107     Document Type: Article

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