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SUBMITTER: Charbon G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5302844 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Charbon Godefroid G Campion Christopher C Chan Siu Hung Joshua SH Bjørn Louise L Weimann Allan A da Silva Luís Cláudio Nascimento LC Jensen Peter Ruhdal PR Løbner-Olesen Anders A
PLoS genetics 20170127 1
Chromosome replication in Escherichia coli is initiated by DnaA. DnaA binds ATP which is essential for formation of a DnaA-oriC nucleoprotein complex that promotes strand opening, helicase loading and replisome assembly. Following initiation, DnaAATP is converted to DnaAADP primarily by the Regulatory Inactivation of DnaA process (RIDA). In RIDA deficient cells, DnaAATP accumulates leading to uncontrolled initiation of replication and cell death by accumulation of DNA strand breaks. Mutations th ...[more]