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A molecular mousetrap determines polarity of termination of DNA replication in E. coli.
Cell - 30 Jun 2006
Mulcair Mark D, Schaeffer Patrick M, Oakley Aaron J, Cross Hannah F, Neylon Cameron, Hill Thomas M, Dixon Nicholas E
Abstract excerpt
During chromosome synthesis in Escherichia coli, replication forks are blocked by Tus bound Ter sites on approach from one direction but not the other. To study the basis of this polarity, we measured the rates of dissociation of Tus from forked TerB oligonucleotides, such as would be produced by the replicative DnaB helicase at both the fork-blocking (nonpermissive) and permissive ends of the Ter site. Strand...
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