Structure and partitioning of bacterial DNA: determined by a balance of compaction and expansion forces?
- 1 September 1995
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Vol. 131 (3) , 235-242
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.1995.tb07782.x
Abstract
The mechanisms that determine chromosome structure and chromosome partitioning in bacteria are largely unknown. Here we discuss two hypotheses: (i) tKeywords
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