Plasmids 101: Stringent Regulation of Replication
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Blog Post
Published
June 20, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
...appropriate time—for example, the cell must have enough nutrients available to complete the entire round ...and regulation in bacteria
Before looking at an example plasmid, let's review how E. coli normally replicate... must bind ATP. Then, the ATP-bound DnaA binds multiple specific sites within the ori called DnaA boxes...stringently controlled plasmids, replication is tightly coupled to the bacterial host's cell cycle, maintaining... stringently regulate plasmid replication. For example, the plasmid ColIb-P9 encodes the protein RepZ ...Inc, also encoded by the ColIb-P9 plasmid, is complementary to part of the sequence forming this pseudoknot...replication. At high copy numbers, RepA proteins form complexes between iterons on different plasmids in a process...