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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2015

Perturbed states of the bacterial chromosome: a thymineless death case study.

Lev Ostrer, Bree L Hamann, Arkady Khodursky

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lev OstrerDepartment of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Biotechnology Institute, University of Minnesota , St. Paul, MN, USA.
Bree L HamannDepartment of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Biotechnology Institute, University of Minnesota , St. Paul, MN, USA.
Arkady KhodurskyDepartment of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Biotechnology Institute, University of Minnesota , St. Paul, MN, USA.
University of Minnesota · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatial patterns of transcriptional activity in the living genome of Escherichia coli represent one of the more peculiar aspects of the E. coli chromosome biology. Spatial transcriptional correlations can be observed throughout the chromosome, and their formation depends on the state of replication in the cell. The condition of thymine starvation leading to thymineless death (TLD) is at the "cross-roads" of replication and transcription. According to a current view, e.g., (Cagliero et al., 2014), one of the cellular objectives is to segregate the processes of transcription and replication in time and space. An ultimate segregation would take place when one process is inhibited and another is not, as it happens during thymine starvation, which results in numerous molecular and physiological abnormalities associated with TLD. One of such abnormalities is the loss of spatial correlations in the vicinity of the origin of replication. We review the transcriptional consequences of replication inhibition by thymine starvation in a context of the state of DNA template in the starved cells and opine about a possible significance of normal physiological coupling between the processes of replication and transcription.

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replicationspatial correlationsthymineless deaththymine starvationtranscription

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PMID25964781
PMCPMC4408854
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