Article
Diversity of prokaryotic chromosomal proteins and the origin of the nucleosome.
Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS - 1 Dec 1998
Sandman K, Pereira S L, Reeve J N
Abstract excerpt
All cells employ architectural proteins to confine and organize their chromosomes, and to prevent the otherwise thermodynamically favored collapse of concentrated DNA into compact structures. To accomplish this, prokaryotes have evolved a variety of phylogenetically unrelated, small, basic, seque...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Chromosomes, Bacterial
- DNA, Circular
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Escherichia coli
- Genetic Variation
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleosomes
- Prokaryotic Cells
- Sequence Alignment