A model for Escherichia coli chromosome packaging supports transcription factor-induced DNA domain formation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 972-980

  Fritsche, Miriam ^a   Li, Songling ^a   Heermann, Dieter W ^a,b   Wiggins, Paul A ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PACKAGING; DNA SUPERCOILING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84863117103     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr779     Document Type: Article

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