Phosphorylation is the most common type of regulatory modification.

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Gyrase, a type II topoisomerase, provides a swivel that allows one DNA strand to rotate around the other.

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The protein single-strand binding protein (SSB) stabilizes the single-stranded DNA as it is formed and modulates the helicase activity.

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The length of duplex DNA that usually is unwound to initiate replicati011 is probably <60 bp.

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HU has the capacity to bend DNA, and is involved in building the structure that leads to formation of the open complex.

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Input of energy in the form of ATP is required at several stages for the prepriming reaction, and it is required for unwinding DNA.

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Once the prepriming complex is loaded onto the replication forks, the next step is the recruitment of the primase, DnaG, which is then loaded onto the DnaB hexamer.