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SUBMITTER: Briggs GS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3457243 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Briggs Geoffrey S GS Smits Wiep Klaas WK Soultanas Panos P
Journal of bacteriology 20120713 19
Much of our knowledge of the initiation of DNA replication comes from studies in the gram-negative model organism Escherichia coli. However, the location and structure of the origin of replication within the E. coli genome and the identification and study of the proteins which constitute the E. coli initiation complex suggest that it might not be as universal as once thought. The archetypal low-G+C-content gram-positive Firmicutes initiate DNA replication via a unique primosomal machinery, quite ...[more]