INITIATION OF CHROMOSOMAL REPLICATION IN THE BACILLUS SUBTILIS MUTANT DNA 3711This research was supported, in part, by grants from Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ATP “Microbiologie,” and ATP “Biotechnologiey,”, No. 040136.

When the dnaB37 initiation mutant of Bacillus subtilis is returned to a permissive temperature following a period at 45 degrees C, a synchronous round of DNA replication immediately ensues. Using this system we have been able to analyse the first fragments to be replicated while avoiding the use of thymine starvation or inhibitors of DNA replication. Such treatments are necessary to achieve even modest synchrony in germinating spores. Our results showed that the first fragment to be replicated was a 4 kb BamHI-SalI restriction fragment, BS6. In contrast, when the analysis was performed out in the presence of novobiocin, an inhibitor of DNA gyrase, replication from BS6 was inhibited and the first fragment to be replicated was BS5, a 5.6 kb fragment located 1.7 kb to the right of BS6. Replication from both putative origins was suppressed by rifamycin and was dependent upon dnaB. The results are discussed in relation to previous attempts to identify the first replicating fragment in germinating spores. We also discuss the possibility that B. subtilis contains two origins and suggest that either can act as the primary origin under certain conditions, or alternatively that both origins may act in concert in normal bidirectional replication, each site being required for the leading strand in each direction.

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Chromosomal initiation in Bacillus subtilis may involve two closely linked origins

Levine

Henckes

Vannier

et al. 1987

Mole Gen Genet

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INITIATION OF CHROMOSOMAL REPLICATION IN THE BACILLUS SUBTILIS MUTANT DNA 3711This research was supported, in part, by grants from Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ATP “Microbiologie,” and ATP “Biotechnologiey,”, No. 040136.

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