Genome Biology

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Chromatin architecture and gene expression in Escherichia coli

Hanni Willenbrock and David W Ussery*

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Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Biotechnology, Building 208, Technical University of Denmark, DK-28OO Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

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Genome Biology 2004, 5:252 doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-12-252

Published: 1 December 2004

Abstract

Two recent genome-scale analyses underscore the importance of DNA topology and chromatin structure in regulating transcription in Escherichia coli.