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PcrA is an essential DNA helicase of Bacillus subtilis fulfilling functions both in repair and rolling-circle replication.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Jul 1998
Petit M A, Dervyn E, Rose M, Entian K D, McGovern S, Ehrlich S D, Bruand C
Abstract excerpt
The only DNA helicase essential for Escherichia coli viability is DnaB, the chromosome replication for helicase. In contrast, in Bacillus subtilis, in addition to the DnaB counterpart called DnaC, we have found a second essential DNA helicase, called PcrA. It is 40% identical to the Rep and UvrD...
Topics
- Adenosine Triphosphatases
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacillus subtilis
- Bacterial Proteins
- Cell Division
- DNA Helicases
- DNA Repair
- DNA Replication
- DNA, Bacterial
- DnaB Helicases
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Genes, Bacterial
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Plasmids