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
Genome replication is a fundamental requirement for the proliferation of all cells. Throughout
the domains of life, conserved DNA replication initiation proteins assemble at specific …

Putative Cooperative ATP–DnaA Binding to Double-Stranded DnaA Box and Single-Stranded DnaA-Trio Motif upon Helicobacter pylori Replication Initiation …

P Jaworski, D Zyla-Uklejewicz… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
oriC is a region of the bacterial chromosome at which the initiator protein DnaA interacts with
specific sequences, leading to DNA unwinding and the initiation of chromosome replication …

Characterization of ori and parS-like functions in secondary genome replicons in Deinococcus radiodurans

GK Maurya, HS Misra - Life Science Alliance, 2021 - life-science-alliance.org
The mechanisms underlying multipartite genome maintenance and its functional
significance in extraordinary radioresistance of Deinococcus radiodurans are not well …

Positive and negative control of helicase recruitment at a bacterial chromosome origin

C Winterhalter, D Stevens, S Fenyk, S Pelliciari… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
The mechanisms responsible for helicase loading during the initiation of chromosome
replication in bacteria are unclear. Here we report both a positive and a negative …