Interconexión de la calidad del disolvente, la transcripción y el plegamiento cromosómico en Escherichia coli

Yingjie Xiang1, Ivan V Surovtsev2, Yunjie Chang3

  • 1Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA.

Cell
|June 29, 2021
PubMed
Resumen

Los científicos descubrieron que el citoplasma bacteriano actúa como un pobre disolvente, causando la compactación del genoma y la formación de dominios dentro del nucleoide. Este proceso puede involucrar a los ARN, que vinculan la organización del ADN con las funciones celulares.

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