Cell BiologybioRxiv
Morphological peculiarities of DNA-protein complexes in dormant Escherichia coli cells, subjected to prolonged starvation
Y. Krupyanskii, N. Loiko, Y. Danilova…·O. Sokolova
The paper uses electron microscopy and tomography to observe DNA condensation in dormant E. coli cells, identifying nanocrystalline, liquid crystalline, and folded nucleosome-like structures, with Dps protein tightly bound in nanocrystalline forms.