Ring polymers as model bacterial chromosomes: confinement, chain topology, single chain statistics, and how they interact

Repulsive Forces Between Looping Chromosomes Induce Entropy-Driven Segregation

(2011) Manfred Bohn et al.   PLoS One

Escherichia coli sister chromosome separation includes an abrupt global transition with concomitant release of late-splitting intersister snaps

(2011) M. C. Joshi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Towards building a chromosome segregation machine

(2010) Kerry Bloom et al.   NATURE

A spindle-like apparatus guides bacterial chromosome segregation

(2010) Jerod L. Ptacin et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Entropy as the driver of chromosome segregation

(2010) Suckjoon Jun et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Overlapping two self-avoiding polymers in a closed cylindrical pore: Implications for chromosome segregation in a bacterial cell

(2010) Youngkyun Jung et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Bacterial Chromosomal Loci Move Subdiffusively through a Viscoelastic Cytoplasm

(2010) Stephanie C. Weber et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A Geometrical Model for DNA Organization in Bacteria

(2010) Mathias Buenemann et al.   PLoS One

Strong intranucleoid interactions organize the Escherichia coli chromosome into a nucleoid filament

(2010) P. A. Wiggins et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacterial Chromosome Organization and Segregation

(2010) E. Toro et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Entropic organization of interphase chromosomes

(2009) Peter R. Cook et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Topological origins of chromosomal territories

(2009) Julien Dorier et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Self-avoiding polymer trapped inside a cylindrical pore: Flory free energy and unexpected dynamics

(2009) Youngkyun Jung et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Compression and Stretching of a Self-Avoiding Chain in Cylindrical Nanopores

(2008) Suckjoon Jun et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS