The multifork Escherichia coli chromosome is a self-duplicating and self-segregating thermodynamic ring polymer

Genes and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 71-84

  Youngren, Brenda ^a   Nielsen, Henrik Jörk ^a   Jun, Suckjoon ^b,c   Austin, Stuart ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MC 0377   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial cell cycle; Bacterial chromosome; Chromosome organization; Chromosome segregation multifork replication

Indexed keywords

DNA; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL SIZE; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME MARKER; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DAUGHTER CELL; DYNAMICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; POLAR BODY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84891670778     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.231050.113     Document Type: Article

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