Utilization of Subsidiary Chromosomal Replication Terminators in Bacillus subtilis
AUTOR(ES)
Griffiths, A. A.
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
The Bacillus subtilis merodiploid strain GSY1127 contains a large nontandem duplication of a portion of its chromosome within its left (anticlockwise) replication segment. This causes displacement of the replication terminus region to a noticeably asymmetric location relative to oriC. The utilization of the subsidiary replication terminators, TerIII and TerV, in the merodiploid strain has been compared with that in B. subtilis 168. It is shown that TerIII is utilized to a significant extent in GSY1127 and that TerV is used only marginally at the most. Neither of these terminators is used to a measurable extent in the 168 strain. It is concluded that TerIII and TerV do indeed function as backups to the major terminator TerI, as has been generally thought. It is further concluded that, in the 168 strain, the vast majority of clockwise forks are arrested at the highly efficient TerI terminator, with fork fusion between the approaching forks occurring frequently while the clockwise fork is stationary at TerI.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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