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SUBMITTER: Val ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4846446 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Val Marie-Eve ME Marbouty Martial M de Lemos Martins Francisco F Kennedy Sean P SP Kemble Harry H Bland Michael J MJ Possoz Christophe C Koszul Romain R Skovgaard Ole O Mazel Didier D
Science advances 20160422 4
Bacteria with multiple chromosomes represent up to 10% of all bacterial species. Unlike eukaryotes, these bacteria use chromosome-specific initiators for their replication. In all cases investigated, the machineries for secondary chromosome replication initiation are of plasmid origin. One of the important differences between plasmids and chromosomes is that the latter replicate during a defined period of the cell cycle, ensuring a single round of replication per cell. Vibrio cholerae carries tw ...[more]