Polymer modeling of the E. coli genome reveals the involvement of locus positioning and macrodomain structuring for the control of chromosome conformation and segregation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1461-1473

  Junier, Ivan ^a,b   Boccard, Frédéric ^c   Espéli, Olivier ^c,d  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHOREOGRAPHY; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME CONFORMATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONFORMATION; ENTROPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC REGULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84896695352     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1005     Document Type: Article

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