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ReviewFEMS microbiology reviews2024

Escherichia coli DNA replication: the old model organism still holds many surprises.

Krystian Łazowski, Roger Woodgate, Iwona J Fijalkowska

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Review in FEMS microbiology reviews, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Mechanistic diversity of clamp loading at small DNA gaps.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2026
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  5. ThebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Krystian ŁazowskiLaboratory of DNA Replication and Genome Stability, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-5163-7026
Roger WoodgateLaboratory of Genomic Integrity, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-3371, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5581-4616
Iwona J FijalkowskaLaboratory of DNA Replication and Genome Stability, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-5307-4332

Funding

DNA Replication, Repair, and Mutagenesis In Eukaryotic And Prokaryotic CellsZIAHD001500 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI WOODGATE, ROGER · 2009 to 2025
$37.5M
National Institutes of Health, Intramural Research programNational Science Centre, Poland 2019/35/N/NZ1/03402
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Research on Escherichia coli DNA replication paved the groundwork for many breakthrough discoveries with important implications for our understanding of human molecular biology, due to the high level of conservation of key molecular processes involved. To this day, it attracts a lot of attention, partially by virtue of being an important model organism, but also because the understanding of factors influencing replication fidelity might be important for studies on the emergence of antibiotic resistance. Importantly, the wide access to high-resolution single-molecule and live-cell imaging, whole genome sequencing, and cryo-electron microscopy techniques, which were greatly popularized in the last decade, allows us to revisit certain assumptions about the replisomes and offers very detailed insight into how they work. For many parts of the replisome, step-by-step mechanisms have been reconstituted, and some new players identified. This review summarizes the latest developments in the area, focusing on (a) the structure of the replisome and mechanisms of action of its components, (b) organization of replisome transactions and repair, (c) replisome dynamics, and (d) factors influencing the base and sugar fidelity of DNA synthesis.

Indexed as

DNA ReplicationEscherichia coliDNA, BacterialDNA RepairDNA, BacterialCryo-EMDNA polymerase III holoenzymeDNA replication fidelityEscherichia coli replisomeribonucleotide excision repairsingle-molecule live-cell imaging

Identifiers

PMID38982189
PMCPMC11253446

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