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Aug 2026
Chromatin is dispensable for bacterial life
The successful construction of ΔNAP9 demonstrates that bacterial cells can carry out basic cellular functions in the absence of co-evolved chromatin proteins, highlighting the potential for radical (re-)engineering of prokaryotic chromatin and systems of gene expression.
Paul Villain, A. Hocher, Jacques Serizay et al.
· bioRxiv · 1 citation