The dynamic nature and territory of transcriptional machinery in the bacterial chromosome

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Jin, Ding J ^a   Cagliero, Cedric ^a   Martin, Carmen M ^a   Izard, Jerome ^a   Zhou, Yan N ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial nucleolus; Chromosome territories; E. coli; Growth rate regulation; Replisome; RNA polymerase; Stress responses; Superresolution imaging

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; GENOMIC DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; IMAGING; LIVE CELL IMAGING; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; OSMOTIC STRESS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPLISOME; REVIEW; RNA SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84931271710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00497     Document Type: Review

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