on Friday, July 9, 2010

Author(s): Stephanie C. Weber, Andrew J. Spakowitz, and Julie A. Theriot

Tracking of fluorescently labeled chromosomal loci in live bacterial cells reveals a robust scaling of the mean square displacement (MSD) as τ0.39. We propose that the observed motion arises from relaxation of the Rouse modes of the DNA polymer within the viscoelastic environment of the cytoplasm. T...

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[Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 238102] Published Tue Jun 08, 2010