Morphological peculiarities of DNA-protein complexes in dormant Escherichia coli cells, subjected to prolonged starvation
Y. Krupyanskii, N. Loiko, Y. Danilova, A. Moiseenko, V. Kovalenko, K. Tereshkina, G. El-REgistan, 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.
bioRxiv · Mar 27, 2020Cell Biology