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nucleoid

The region of a virus, bacterial cell, mitochondrion or chloroplast to which the nucleic acid is confined. [GOC:bm, GOC:ma, ISBN:3540076689]

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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Chromosome organization by a nucleoid-associated protein in live bacteria.
Bacterial chromosomes are confined in submicrometer-sized nucleoids. Chromosome organization is facilitated by nucleoid… (More)
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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Super-resolution microscopy reveals that mammalian mitochondrial nucleoids have a uniform size and frequently contain a single copy of mtDNA.
Mammalian mtDNA is packaged in DNA-protein complexes denoted mitochondrial nucleoids. The organization of the nucleoid is a very… (More)
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
The layered structure of human mitochondrial DNA nucleoids.
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) occurs in cells in nucleoids containing several copies of the genome. Previous studies have identified… (More)
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
The mitochondrial transcription factor TFAM coordinates the assembly of multiple DNA molecules into nucleoid-like structures.
Packaging DNA into condensed structures is integral to the transmission of genomes. The mammalian mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) is… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
SlmA, a nucleoid-associated, FtsZ binding protein required for blocking septal ring assembly over Chromosomes in E. coli.
Cell division in Escherichia coli begins with assembly of the tubulin-like FtsZ protein into a ring structure just underneath the… (More)
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Coordination of Cell Division and Chromosome Segregation by a Nucleoid Occlusion Protein in Bacillus subtilis
A range of genetical and physiological experiments have established that diverse bacterial cells possess a function called… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Large-scale monitoring of pleiotropic regulation of gene expression by the prokaryotic nucleoid-associated protein, H-NS.
Despite many years of intense work investigating the function of nucleoid-associated proteins in prokaryotes, their role in… (More)
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Growth phase-dependent variation in protein composition of the Escherichia coli nucleoid.
The genome DNA of Escherichia coli is associated with about 10 DNA-binding structural proteins, altogether forming the nucleoid… (More)
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Twelve species of the nucleoid-associated protein from Escherichia coli. Sequence recognition specificity and DNA binding affinity.
The genome of Escherichia coli is composed of a single molecule of circular DNA with the length of about 47,000 kilobase pairs… (More)
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Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Envelope-associated nucleoid from Caulobacter crescentus stalked and swarmer cells.
Envelope-associated nucleoids have been isolated from Caulobacter crescentus by using a modification of the procedure of T… (More)
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