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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Steric interactions and out-of-equilibrium processes control the internal organization of bacteria.

A Movilla Miangolarra, Sophia Hsin-Jung Li, Jean-François Joanny, Ned S Wingreen, Michele Castellana

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 0 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

A Movilla MiangolarraLaboratoire Physico-Chimie Curie, Institut Curie, Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University, CNRS UMR 168, 75005 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-1064-7647
Sophia Hsin-Jung LiDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
Jean-François JoannyLaboratoire Physico-Chimie Curie, Institut Curie, Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University, CNRS UMR 168, 75005 Paris, France.
Ned S WingreenDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; wingreen@princeton.edu michele.castellana@curie.fr.ORCID 0000-0001-7384-2821
Michele CastellanaLaboratoire Physico-Chimie Curie, Institut Curie, Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University, CNRS UMR 168, 75005 Paris, France; wingreen@princeton.edu michele.castellana@curie.fr.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRPrinceton University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the absence of a membrane-enclosed nucleus, the bacterial DNA is typically condensed into a compact body-the nucleoid. This compaction influences the localization and dynamics of many cellular processes including transcription, translation, and cell division. Here, we develop a model that takes into account steric interactions among the components of the

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Cell PolarityChromosomes, BacterialDNA, BacterialEscherichia coliIntracellular SpaceModels, BiologicalProtein BiosynthesisRibosomesRNA, BacterialRNA, MessengerTranscription, GeneticDNA, BacterialRNA, BacterialRNA, Messengerbacteriamodelingnucleoidself-organization

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PMID34675077
PMCPMC8639350
OpenAlexW3155321166

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