Macromolecular crowding can account for RNase-sensitive constraint of bacterial nucleoid structure

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 395, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-47

  Foley, Patricia L ^a,c   Wilson, David B ^b   Shuler, Michael L ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^b NYU School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli nucleoid; Fluorescent microscopy; Macromolecular crowding; Nucleoid associated proteins; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; DETERGENT; RIBONUCLEASE; CETOMACROGOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIA NUCLEOID; BACTERIAL CELL; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; HYPOTHESIS; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CETOMACROGOL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 77951920988     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.03.128     Document Type: Article

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