Structural and functional map of a bacterial nucleoid
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* Corresponding authors: Agustino Martínez-Antonio amartinez@ira.cinvestav.mx - Julio Collado-Vides collado@ccg.unam.mx
1 Departamento de Ingeniería Genética, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Irapuato, 36500, México
2 Programa de Genómica Computacional, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
Genome Biology 2009, 10:247 doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-12-247
Published: 11 December 2009Abstract
Genome-wide mapping of transcription factor-DNA interactions in bacterial chromosomes in vivo has begun to reveal global zones occupied by these factors that serve two purposes: compacting the bacterial DNA and influencing global programs of gene transcription.