Minicells form when septum formation occurs too frequently or in the wrong place, with the result that one of the new daughter cells lacks a chromosome. 

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As the origins are hemimethylated they bind to the cell membrane and become unavailable to methylases.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.