| Range |
~60,000 copies/cell
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| Organism |
Bacteria Escherichia coli |
| Reference |
Løbner-Olesen A, Kuempel PL. Chromosome partitioning in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol. 1992 Dec174(24):7883-9. p.7885 right column top paragraphPubMed ID1459936
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| Primary Source |
Rouvière-Yaniv J, Yaniv M, Germond JE. E. coli DNA binding protein HU forms nucleosomelike structure with circular double-stranded DNA. Cell. 1979 Jun17(2):265-74.PubMed ID222478
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| Comments |
"The most abundant of
the histone-like proteins in E. coli is protein HU, which is found in approximately 60,000 copies in the cell (primary source), sufficient
to account for 20% of the restrained DNA in a cell (41)." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
109543 |