Article
Effect of CIS on activity in trans of the replication initiator protein of an IncB plasmid.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jul 2000
Praszkier J, Murthy S, Pittard A J
Abstract excerpt
RepA, the replication initiator protein of the IncB plasmid pMU720, acts preferentially in cis. The cis activity of RepA is thought to be mediated by CIS, a 166-bp region of DNA separating the coding region of repA from the origin of replication (ori) of pMU720. To investigate the trans activity of RepA, the repA gene, without its cognate ori, was cloned on a multicopy plasmid, pSU39. The ori on which RepA acts...
Topics
- DNA Helicases
- DNA Replication
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Escherichia coli
- Gene Dosage
- Genes, Bacterial
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
- Plasmids
- Proteins
- Replication Origin
