Nucleoid structure and segregation

Bacterial Chromatin

Volumn 9789048134731, Issue , 2010, Pages 71-96

  Woldringh, Conrad L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacterial chromosome; Chromosome arms (replichores); Entropic repulsion of DNA strands; Nucleoid segregation; Phase separation; Supercoiled polymer network; Volume exclusion interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864379357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3473-1_5     Document Type: Chapter

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