Nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs) bind to the bacterial chromosome and alter its dynamics, maintaining nucleoid structure. In this Review, Dillon and Dorman examine the range of proteins in the ...

Nucleoid remodeling is a common strategy among bacteria to protect their DNA against external stresses. This process is primarily controlled by NAPs (Nucleoid Associated Proteins), which interact ...

Bacterial DNA floats freely within bacterial cells in a twisted, thread-like mass called the nucleoid. Some also have separate, circular pieces of DNA called plasmids.

Remove the polyphosphate or the nucleoid-associated protein, said Jakob, and the bacteria suddenly mobilizes these prophages resulting in significant mutations.

To grow and multiply efficiently, bacteria must coordinate cell division with chromosome segregation. Key to this process is a protein called Nucleoid Occlusion Factor or Noc. A small and abundant ...

The Meyer lab studies fundamental questions of chromosome organization in bacteria. In starving bacteria cells, Dps (DNA binding protein from starved cells) compacts DNA into a dense structure that ...

Management of chromosome shape and topology in bacteria falls to three groups of proteins: the DNA topoisomerases, the structural ... (SMC), and the small double-strand DNA-binding nucleoid-associated ...

Most phages live inside a host bacterium’s nucleoid (a large tangle of DNA comprising its genome), but VP882 behaves like a plasmid—a simple ring of DNA that floats freely in the cell.

Silver Ions Caused Faster Diffusive Dynamics of Histone-Like Nucleoid-Structuring Proteins in Live Bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology , 2020; 86 (6) DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02479-19 Cite ...

Most bacteria eat detritus or produce their own food. But since Stolp’s discovery of the hunter Bdellovibrio , scientists have come to realize predatory bacteria are diverse, important and ...

Credit: 2022, Takaya Ishihara, Mitochondrial nucleoid trafficking regulated by the inner-membrane AAA-ATPase ATAD3A modulates respiratory complex formation, Proceedings of the National Academy of ...