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ArticleJournal of bacteriology2011

Primosomal proteins DnaD and DnaB are recruited to chromosomal regions bound by DnaA in Bacillus subtilis.

Wiep Klaas Smits, Houra Merrikh, Carla Yaneth Bonilla, Alan D Grossman

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Article in Journal of bacteriology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wiep Klaas SmitsDepartment of Biology, Bldg. 68-530, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Houra Merrikh
Carla Yaneth Bonilla
Alan D Grossman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Cell Cycle and Sporulation in Bacillis SubtillisR37GM041934 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI GROSSMAN, ALAN D · 2009 to 2017
$4.8M
INITITATION OF SPORULATION IN BACILLUS SUBTILISR01GM041934 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI GROSSMAN, ALAN D · 1989 to 2007
$2.6M
Regulation of DNA replication in B.subtilis by YabAF32GM093408 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI MERRIKH, HOURA · 2010 to 2011
$78k
NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM093408NIGMS NIH HHS F32GM093408NIGMS NIH HHS GM41934NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM041934NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM041934
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The initiation of DNA replication requires the binding of the initiator protein, DnaA, to specific binding sites in the chromosomal origin of replication, oriC. DnaA also binds to many sites around the chromosome, outside oriC, and acts as a transcription factor at several of these. In low-G+C Gram-positive bacteria, the primosomal proteins DnaD and DnaB, in conjunction with loader ATPase DnaI, load the replicative helicase at oriC, and this depends on DnaA. DnaD and DnaB also are required to load the replicative helicase outside oriC during replication restart, independently of DnaA. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we found that DnaD and DnaB, but not the replicative helicase, are associated with many of the chromosomal regions bound by DnaA in Bacillus subtilis. This association was dependent on DnaA, and the order of recruitment was the same as that at oriC, but it was independent of a functional oriC and suggests that DnaD and DnaB do not require open complex formation for the stable association with DNA. These secondary binding regions for DnaA could be serving as a reservoir for excess DnaA, DnaD, and DnaB to help properly regulate replication initiation and perhaps are analogous to the proposed function of the datA locus in Escherichia coli. Alternatively, DnaD and DnaB might modulate the activity of DnaA at the secondary binding regions. All three of these proteins are widely conserved and likely have similar functions in a range of organisms.

Indexed as

Bacillus subtilisBacterial ProteinsChromatin ImmunoprecipitationDNA, BacterialDnaB HelicasesDNA-Binding ProteinsProtein BindingBacterial ProteinsDnaA protein, BacteriaDNA, BacterialDnaB HelicasesDNA-Binding ProteinsDnaD protein, Bacillus subtilis

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PMID21097613
PMCPMC3021214
OpenAlexW2044880119

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