Nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs) are chromosome-organizing factors, which affect the
transcriptional landscape of a bacterial cell. HU is an NAP, which binds to DNA with a broad …

IHF and HU are two heterodimeric nucleoid-associated proteins (NAP) that belong to the
same protein family but interact differently with the DNA. IHF is a sequence-specific DNA …

Background The structure and function of bacterial nucleoid are controlled by histone-like
proteins of HU/IHF family, omnipresent in bacteria and also founding archaea and some …

Nucleoid-associated proteins belong to a group of small but abundant proteins in bacterial
cells. These transcription regulators are responsible for many important cellular processes …

Bacterial histone-like HU proteins are critical to maintenance of the nucleoid structure. In
addition, they participate in all DNA-dependent functions, including replication, repair …

The apparatus required for the regulation of gene expression varies widely in complexity. At
one extreme, regulation can be achieved by one or two proteins acting at a DNA locus that …

In bacteria, chromosomal DNA must be efficiently compacted to fit inside the small cell
compartment while remaining available for the proteins involved in replication, segregation …

Bacterial nucleoid-associated proteins play a key role in the organisation, replication,
segregation, repair and expression of bacterial chromosomes. Here, we review some recent …

The histone‐like protein HU is a highly abundant DNA architectural protein that is involved
in compacting the DNA of the bacterial nucleoid and in regulating the main DNA …

Cnu is a nucleoid protein that has a high degree of sequence homology with Hha/YmoA
family proteins, which bind to chromatin and regulate the expression of Escherichia coli …