TLS Online TPP Program

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Replication in bacteria and in eukaryotes is licensed and permitted to occur only once per cell cycle. Each replicon is allowed to fire only once.

TLS Online TPP Program

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

13 minutes delaying, sequesters Oric regions in a form in which they are inaccessible to the Dam methylase and this is done by SeqA protein.

TLS Online TPP Program

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

SeqA mutants reduce the delay in remethylation at both oriC and dnaA. As a result, they initiate DNA replication too soon, thereby accumulating an excessive number of origins.

TLS Online TPP Program

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

SeqA is part of a negative regulatory circuit that prevents origins from being remethylated.

TLS Online TPP Program

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Mutations in dnaA render replication asynchronous, which suggests that DnaA could be the “titrator” or “clock” that measures the number of origins relative to cell mass.

TLS Online TPP Program

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

dat locus is regulatory

In particular, a locus called dat has a large concentration of DnaA-binding sites. It binds about 80 more DnaA molecules than the origin.

Deletion of dat causes initiation to occur more frequently. This significantly increases the amount of DnaA available to the origin.