A geometrical model for DNA organization in bacteria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Buenemann, Mathias ^a,b   Lenz, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CIRCULAR DNA;

ARTICLE; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; KARYOTYPE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; ALGORITHM; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONFORMATION; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ALGORITHMS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, CIRCULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 78149484750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013806     Document Type: Article

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