TABLE 3.
Statistics of DNA plasmid forms
EM sample | DNA forms |
Number of molecules | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Supercoiled | Intermediatea | Relaxed | ||
% | % | % | ||
DNA + H-NS | 74.8 | 6.9 | 18.3 | 377 |
DNA + H-NS + Arn-His | 31.5 | 21.0 | 47.5 | 238 |
a The intermediate form indicates that the structure of plasmid DNA contains partially ordered structures in some regions that are not similar to highly compact supercoiled or fully relaxed form plasmid DNA.