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A genetic selection for supercoiling mutants of Escherichia coli reveals proteins implicated in chromosome structure.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Sept 2005
Hardy Christine D, Cozzarelli Nicholas R
Abstract excerpt
Chromosomes are divided into topologically independent regions, called domains, by the action of uncharacterized barriers. With the goal of identifying domain barrier components, we designed a genetic selection for mutants with reduced negative supercoiling of the Escherichia coli chromosome. We employed a strain that contained two chromosomally located reporter genes under the control of a supercoiling-sensitive...
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