Article
Requirement for RecFOR-mediated recombination in priA mutant.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Apr 2004
Grompone Gianfranco, Sanchez Nicolas, Dusko Ehrlich S, Michel Bénédicte
Abstract excerpt
Restart of arrested replication forks is an important process and PriA, the main Escherichia coli replication restart protein, is essential for viability under any condition that increases the frequency of fork arrest. In priA mutant, replication forks are arrested by spontaneously occurring roadblocks and blocked replication forks persist as a result of the defect in replication restart. In the present work, we...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- DNA Damage
- DNA Helicases
- DNA Repair
- DNA Replication
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Techniques
- Mutation
- Rec A Recombinases
- Recombination, Genetic
