Choreography of bacteriophage T7 DNA replication

SJ Lee, CC Richardson - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2011 - Elsevier
The replication system of phage T7 provides a model for DNA replication. Biochemical,
structural, and single-molecule analyses together provide insight into replisome mechanics …

Impact of macromolecular crowding on DNA replication

B Akabayov, SR Akabayov, SJ Lee, G Wagner… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Enzymatic activities in vivo occur in a crowded environment composed of many
macromolecules. This environment influences DNA replication by increasing the …

Molecular basis for the initiation of DNA primer synthesis

AWH Li, K Zabrady, LJ Bainbridge, M Zabrady… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
During the initiation of DNA replication, oligonucleotide primers are synthesized de novo by
primases and are subsequently extended by replicative polymerases to complete genome …

DnaG primase—A target for the development of novel antibacterial agents

S Ilic, S Cohen, M Singh, B Tam, A Dayan, B Akabayov - Antibiotics, 2018 - mdpi.com
The bacterial primase—an essential component in the replisome—is a promising but
underexploited target for novel antibiotic drugs. Bacterial primases have a markedly different …

Insight into the human DNA primase interaction with template-primer

AG Baranovskiy, Y Zhang, Y Suwa, J Gu… - Journal of Biological …, 2016 - ASBMB
DNA replication in almost all organisms depends on the activity of DNA primase, a DNA-
dependent RNA polymerase that synthesizes short RNA primers of defined size for DNA …

Bi-and multi-directional gene transfer in the natural populations of polyvalent bacteriophages, and their host species spectrum representing foodborne versus other …

E Gabashvili, S Kobakhidze, S Koulouris… - Food and Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
Unraveling the trends of phage-host versus phage-phage coevolution is critical for avoiding
possible undesirable outcomes from the use of phage preparations intended for therapeutic …

Definition of the binding specificity of the T7 bacteriophage primase by analysis of a protein binding microarray using a thermodynamic model

G Lipps - Nucleic Acids Research, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Protein binding microarrays (PBM), SELEX, RNAcompete and chromatin-
immunoprecipitation have been intensively used to determine the specificity of nucleic acid …

Plant organellar DNA primase-helicase synthesizes RNA primers for organellar DNA polymerases using a unique recognition sequence

A Peralta-Castro, N Baruch-Torres… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
DNA primases recognize single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) sequences to synthesize RNA
primers during lagging-strand replication. Arabidopsis thaliana encodes an ortholog of the …

Development of potential broad spectrum antimicrobials using C2-symmetric 9-fluorenone alkyl amine

S Choi, MA Larson, SH Hinrichs… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2016 - Elsevier
DNA-dependent RNA primase is essential for de novo primer synthesis during DNA
replication in all living organisms. Bacterial DnaG primase is an attractive target for inhibition …

The N-terminal domain of the Drosophila mitochondrial replicative DNA helicase contains an iron-sulfur cluster and binds DNA

J Stiban, GA Farnum, SL Hovde, LS Kaguni - Journal of Biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
The metazoan mitochondrial DNA helicase is an integral part of the minimal mitochondrial
replisome. It exhibits strong sequence homology with the bacteriophage T7 gene 4 protein …