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Origin activation requires both replicative and accessory helicases during T4 infection.
Journal of molecular biology - 11 Apr 2008
Brister J Rodney
Abstract excerpt
The bacteriophage T4 has served as an in vitro model for the study of DNA replication for several decades, yet less is known about this process during infection. Recent work has shown that viral DNA synthesis is initiated from at least five origins of replication distributed across the 172 kb chromosome, but continued synthesis is dependent on recombination. Two proteins are predicted to facilitate loading of the...
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