The nucleoid as a smart polymer

Front Microbiol. 2015 May 8:6:424. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00424. eCollection 2015.

¹ Computational and Quantitative Biology, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7238 Paris, France.
² Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LBPA, UMR 8113, ENS Cachan Cachan, France.
³ Computational and Quantitative Biology, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7238 Paris, France ; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7238 Paris, France.

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Keywords: bacterial nucleoid; genome organization; nucleoid-associated proteins; polymer sensors; smart-polymers; supercoiling.