In all domains of life, genome organization occurs in a functional and dynamic manner, packaging the genome into the nucleus (in eukaryotes) or into the cell (in bacteria or archaea) and, at the same ...

Nucleoid-associated proteins in bacteria perform roles that influence all of the major DNA transactions. In Escherichia coli and other Gram-negative bacteria, the H-NS nucleoid-associated protein has ...

While prokaryotic cells do not have membrane-bound structures, they do have distinct cellular regions (Figure 1). In prokaryotic cells, DNA bundles together in a region called the nucleoid. Primitive ...