The central lysine in the P-loop motif of the Escherichia coli DnaA protein is essential for initiating DNA replication from the chromosomal origin, oriC, and the F factor origin, oriS, but is dispensable for initiation from the P1 plasmid origin, oriR

Plasmid

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 91-99

  Skovgaard, Ole ^a   Olesen, Kirsten ^a   Wright, Andrew ^a,b  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; F FACTOR; PLASMID DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031709128     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1998.1349     Document Type: Article

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