The role of nucleoid‐associated proteins in the organization and compaction of bacterial chromatin | Semantic Scholar
@article{Dame2005TheRO, title={The role of nucleoid‐associated proteins in the organization and compaction of bacterial chromatin}, author={Remus T. Dame}, journal={Molecular Microbiology}, year={2005}, volume={56}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:26965112} }
The bacterial chromosomal DNA is folded into a compact structure called nucleoid, which is determined by a number of factors, which major players are DNA supercoiling, macromolecular crowding and architectural proteins, associated with the nucleoid.