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Direct regulation of topoisomerase activity by a nucleoid-associated protein.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jan 2014
Ghosh Soumitra, Mallick Bratati, Nagaraja Valakunja
Abstract excerpt
The topological homeostasis of bacterial chromosomes is maintained by the balance between compaction and the topological organization of genomes. Two classes of proteins play major roles in chromosome organization: the nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs) and topoisomerases. The NAPs bind DNA to compact the chromosome, whereas topoisomerases catalytically remove or introduce supercoils into the genome. We...
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