Modelling of crowded polymers elucidate effects of double-strand breaks in topological domains of bacterial chromosomes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 6808-6815

  Dorier, Julien ^a,b   Stasiak, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SISTER CHROMATID; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; CHROMATID; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 84881511009     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt480     Document Type: Article

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