Evidence for a chromosome origin unwinding system broadly conserved in bacteria

S Pelliciari, MJ Dong, F Gao, H Murray - Nucleic acids research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… be present in the majority of bacterial chromosome origins. Moreover, we find … basal unwinding
system’ (BUS). In this study we investigated whether the oriC unwinding system identified

Identification of the Unwinding Region in the Clostridioides difficile Chromosomal Origin of Replication

AM Oliveira Paiva, E Van Eijk, AH Friggen… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
bacteria, replication of the chromosome starts with the assembly of the replisome at the
origin … of the DnaA-trio are part of the basal unwinding system (ie, required for DnaA-dependent …

Molecular determinants of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome origin basal unwinding system

S Pelliciari, DR Burnham, G Merces, H Yardimci… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
… a chromosome origin are loaded around ssDNA. Bacterial chromosome origin unwinding
to … Therefore, the model described here would apply to all putative BUS systems identified. …

A mechanistic understanding of bacterial chromosome organisation

I Sadhir - 2023 - archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de
… boxes and an AT-rich DNA unwinding element (DUE), that serve … DnaA binds to these
sequences, triggering the unwinding of … In our aim to identify the sequence(s) responsible for …

The bacterial replication origin BUS promotes nucleobase capture

S Pelliciari, S Bodet-Lefèvre, S Fenyk… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
… encode information that promotes specific unwinding of the … the identification of conserved
chromosome origin sequence … bacterial chromosome origin Basal Unwinding System (BUS, …

… , and Binding: Regulation of Initiation of Chromosome Replication During the Escherichia coli Cell Cycle by Transcriptional Modulators That Interact With Origin DNA

JE Grimwade, AC Leonard - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… , termed orisomes, unwind replication origin (oriC) DNA and … We identify three known
transcriptional modulators, SeqA, … all growth rates, bacterial chromosome replication begins once…

Chromosomal Organization and Regulation of Genetic Function in Escherichia coli Integrates the DNA Analog and Digital Information

A Travers, G Muskhelishvili - EcoSal Plus, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
… maintain its structural integrity and identity under the changing … constrain DNA unwinding,
in the form of either untwisting or … of genes on bacterial chromosomes. Nucleic Acids Res 37:…

DNA replication termination and chromosome dynamics in 𝘌𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘪

DJ Goodall - 2024 - bura.brunel.ac.uk
… coli appears to be an opportunistic pathogen, based on the basal … This coiling allows unwinding
of duplex DNA by relieving … de ine the complexities of bacterial chromosome duplication. …

Coordination of DNA unwinding and DNA synthesis at the bacterial replisome

R Reyes, JPR Perez, OU d'Acoz, N Soubry… - Biophysical …, 2024 - cell.com
… mains of GPCRs and identified their mechanism of formation … We studied basal, or
ligand-independent, signaling because … In this paper, I review present ideas about the origin of …

Bulk and single-molecule analysis of a bacterial DNA2-like helicase–nuclease reveals a single-stranded DNA looping motor

OJ Wilkinson, C Carrasco, C Aicart-Ramos… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… feature of processive DNA unwinding enzymes. The … In the absence of DNA, purified Bad
displayed a basal ATPase … In this work, we identified and characterised a bacterial helicase–…