Walter Messer, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
Published online: May 2005
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003900
Replication origins are cis‐acting sequences of a few hundred base pairs required for the replication of adjacent DNA. Their function is recognition of the correct start site and assembly of replication forks at this site.
Keywords: DnaA; initiator protein; initiation of replication; oriC; replication origin
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Figure 1.
Map location and structure of the Escherichia coli replication origin, oriC. Triangles indicate promoters. FIS, factor for inversion stimulation; IHF, integration host factor. |
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Figure 2.
Stages in the initiation of replication at oriC of Escherichia coli. ADP, adenosine diphosphate; ATP, adenosine triphosphate; Pol, polymerase. |
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Figure 3.
Structures of some bacterial replication origins. |
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Further Reading
Del Solar G, Giraldo R, Ruiz‐Echevarría MJ, Espinosa M and Díaz‐Orejas R (1998) Replication and control of circular bacterial plasmids. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 62: 434–464.
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Messer W (2002) The bacterial initiator DnaA. DnaA and oriC, the bacterial mode to initiate DNA replication. FEMS Microbiology Reviews 26: 355–374.
Messer W and Weigel C (1996) Initation of chromosome replication. In: Neidhardt FC, Curtiss R III and Ingraham J et al. (eds) Escherichia coli and Salmonella, Cellular and Molecular Biology, pp. 1579–1601. Washington, DC: ASM Press.
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Yoshikawa H and Wake RG (1993) Initiation and termination of chromosome replication. In: Sonenshein AL, Hoch JA and Losick R (eds) Bacillus subtilis and Other Gram‐Positive Bacteria: Biochemistry, Physiology, and Molecular Genetics, pp. 507–528. Washington, DC: ASM Press.
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