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ArticlePloS one2015

Are the SSB-Interacting Proteins RecO, RecG, PriA and the DnaB-Interacting Protein Rep Bound to Progressing Replication Forks in Escherichia coli?

Esma Bentchikou, Carine Chagneau, Emilie Long, Mélody Matelot, Jean-François Allemand, Bénédicte Michel

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Article in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Replication stalling activates SSB for recruitment of DNA damage tolerance factors.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Esma BentchikouInstitute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris Sud, Gif sur Yvette, France.
Carine ChagneauInstitute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris Sud, Gif sur Yvette, France.
Emilie LongInstitute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris Sud, Gif sur Yvette, France.
Mélody MatelotInstitute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris Sud, Gif sur Yvette, France.
Jean-François AllemandLaboratoire de Physique Statistique, Département de Physique, UMR 8550 CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Universités Pierre et Marie Curie and Paris Diderot, Paris, France; IBENS, Département de Biologie, UMR 8542 CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
Bénédicte MichelInstitute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris Sud, Gif sur Yvette, France.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRCommissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives · FRÉcole Normale Supérieure - PSL · FRUniversité Paris-Sud · FR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In all organisms several enzymes that are needed upon replication impediment are targeted to replication forks by interaction with a replication protein. In most cases these proteins interact with the polymerase clamp or with single-stranded DNA binding proteins (SSB). In Escherichia coli an accessory replicative helicase was also shown to interact with the DnaB replicative helicase. Here we have used cytological observation of Venus fluorescent fusion proteins expressed from their endogenous loci in live E. coli cells to determine whether DNA repair and replication restart proteins that interact with a replication protein travel with replication forks. A custom-made microscope that detects active replisome molecules provided that they are present in at least three copies was used. Neither the recombination proteins RecO and RecG, nor the replication accessory helicase Rep are detected specifically in replicating cells in our assay, indicating that either they are not present at progressing replication forks or they are present in less than three copies. The Venus-PriA fusion protein formed foci even in the absence of replication forks, which prevented us from reaching a conclusion.

Indexed as

DNA ReplicationBacterial ProteinsDNA, BacterialDnaB HelicasesDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA HelicasesDNA RepairDNA, Single-StrandedEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsLuminescent ProteinsMicroscopy, FluorescenceNucleic Acid ConformationProtein BindingBacterial ProteinsDNA, BacterialDnaB HelicasesDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA HelicasesDNA, Single-StrandedEscherichia coli ProteinsLuminescent ProteinspriA protein, E coliRecG protein, E coliRecO protein, E colirep protein, E coliSSB protein, E coliyellow fluorescent protein, Bacteria

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PMID26244508
PMCPMC4526528
OpenAlexW1852909393

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