Chromosome, cell cycle, and entropy.

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Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4. Machine learning classification of trajectories from molecular dynamics simulations of chromosome segregation.PloS one · 2022
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5. Stochastic nucleoid segregation dynamics as a source of the phenotypic variability in E. coli.Biophysical journal · 2021
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6. Engineering spatiotemporal organization and dynamics in synthetic cells.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology · 2021
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7. Chromosome Segregation in Bacillus subtilis Follows an Overall Pattern of Linear Movement and Is Highly Robust against Cell Cycle Perturbations.mSphere · 2020
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8. Cell morphology and nucleoid dynamics in dividing Deinococcus radiodurans.Nature communications · 2019
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9. The bacterial cell cycle, chromosome inheritance and cell growth.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2019
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10. A ring-polymer model shows how macromolecular crowding controls chromosome-arm organization in Escherichia coli.Scientific reports · 2017
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Osmotic compaction of supercoiled DNA into a bacterial nucleoid.1998
• Comment on
  Polymer-mediated compaction and internal dynamics of isolated Escherichia coli nucleoids.2001
• Comment on
  Physical manipulation of the Escherichia coli chromosome reveals its soft nature.2012
• Comment on
  Simulating the entropic collapse of coarse-grained chromosomes.2015

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