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Fig. 7 | BMC Microbiology

Fig. 7

From: Organization of DNA in a bacterial nucleoid

Fig. 7

A possible model of low-level nucleoid organization. a A fragment of EM image of E. coli nucleoid (adapted from [21]). b Genomic DNA (gray) forms loops with A-tract clusters (cyan) located at apexes and MNase resistant fragments (black) occupying loop ‘stems’. c A blow-up of a DNA loop, containing several A-tracts (cyan) and two MNase resistant fragments (black)

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