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Replication Initiation in Bacteria.
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- Archaeal and eukaryotic MCM rings sequentially melt DNA for replication initiation.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Mechanisms of chromosomal DNA replication in Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2026Review
- Distinct quaternary states, intermediates, and autoinhibition during loading of the DnaB-replicative helicase by the phage λP helicase loader.Nucleic acids research · 2025Article
- A global perspective on the genomics ofMicrobial genomics · 2025Article
- Compact Origins and Where to Find Them: ORC's Guide to Genome-Wide Licensing.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025Review
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- An antisense RNA regulates production of DnaA and affects sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- Negative DNA supercoiling enhances DARS2 binding of DNA-bending protein IHF in the activation of Fis-dependent ATP-DnaA production.Nucleic acids research · 2025Article
- Clues to transcription/replication collision-induced DNA damage: it was RNAP, in the chromosome, with the fork.FEBS letters · 2025Review
- Ampicillin treatment in persister cell studies may cause non-physiological artifacts.Microbial cell (Graz, Austria) · 2025Article
- Establishing a biochemical understanding of the initiation of chromosome replication in bacteria.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- IHF and Fis asInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Single-stranded DNA recruitment mechanism in replication origin unwinding by DnaA initiator protein and HU, an evolutionary ubiquitous nucleoid protein.Nucleic acids research · 2023Article
- Inhibition of Replication Fork Formation and Progression: Targeting the Replication Initiation and Primosomal Proteins.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Diverse Mechanisms of Helicase Loading during DNA Replication Initiation in Bacteria.Journal of bacteriology · 2023Review
- The LH-DH module of bacterial replicative helicases is the common binding site for DciA and other helicase loaders.Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology · 2023Article
- Structural Insights of the DciA Helicase Loader in Its Relationship with DNA.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- DciA Helicase Operators Exhibit Diversity across Bacterial Phyla.Journal of bacteriology · 2022Article
- Convergent evolution in two bacterial replicative helicase loaders.Trends in biochemical sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
The initiation of chromosomal DNA replication starts at a replication origin, which in bacteria is a discrete locus that contains DNA sequence motifs recognized by an initiator protein whose role is to assemble the replication fork machinery at this site. In bacteria with a single chromosome, DnaA is the initiator and is highly conserved in all bacteria. As an adenine nucleotide binding protein, DnaA bound to ATP is active in the assembly of a DnaA oligomer onto these sites. Other proteins modulate DnaA oligomerization via their interaction with the N-terminal region of DnaA. Following the DnaA-dependent unwinding of an AT-rich region within the replication origin, DnaA then mediates the binding of DnaB, the replicative DNA helicase, in a complex with DnaC to form an intermediate named the prepriming complex. In the formation of this intermediate, the helicase is loaded onto the unwound region within the replication origin. As DnaC bound to DnaB inhibits its activity as a DNA helicase, DnaC must dissociate to activate DnaB. Apparently, the interaction of DnaB with primase (DnaG) and primer formation leads to the release of DnaC from DnaB, which is coordinated with or followed by translocation of DnaB to the junction of the replication fork. There, DnaB is able to coordinate its activity as a DNA helicase with the cellular replicase, DNA polymerase III holoenzyme, which uses the primers made by primase for leading strand DNA synthesis.
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