Abstract
The nucleoid as a smart polymer.
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Microbial Physiology and Metabolism, a section of the journal Frontiers in Microbiology
We want to explore the analogy with the “intelligent” behavior shaped into bacterial nucleoids by natural selection
What is a smart polymer, and what does it do? In soft-matter physics, “smart,” or “stimulus-responsive,” polymers are technological polymer systems designed to effect a variety of responsive behaviors to external stimuli (Figure 1)
Summary
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Microbial Physiology and Metabolism, a section of the journal Frontiers in Microbiology. We want to suggest here that so called “smart polymers” (Galaev and Mattiasson, 1999; Kumar et al, 2007) could be a promising technological metaphor for the behavior of the bacterial nucleoid.
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