Open questions about the roles of DnaA, related proteins, and hyperstructure dynamics in the cell cycle

M Kohiyama, J Herrick, V Norris - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
The DnaA protein has long been considered to play the key role in the initiation of
chromosome replication in modern bacteria. Many questions about this role, however …

The in vivo measurement of replication fork velocity and pausing by lag-time analysis

D Huang, AE Johnson, BS Sim, TW Lo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
An important step towards understanding the mechanistic basis of the central dogma is the
quantitative characterization of the dynamics of nucleic-acid-bound molecular motors in the …

Bacterial replication initiation as precision control by protein counting

H Fu, F Xiao, S Jun - PRX life, 2023 - APS
Balanced biosynthesis is the hallmark of bacterial cell physiology, where the concentrations
of stable proteins remain steady. However, this poses a conceptual challenge to modeling …

Slowest possible replicative life at frigid temperatures for yeast

DS Laman Trip, T Maire, H Youk - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Determining whether life can progress arbitrarily slowly may reveal fundamental barriers to
staying out of thermal equilibrium for living systems. By monitoring budding yeast's slowed …

Rationally designed chromosome fusion does not prevent rapid growth of Vibrio natriegens

L Ramming, D Stukenberg, MC Sánchez Olmos… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
DNA replication is essential for the proliferation of all cells. Bacterial chromosomes are
replicated bidirectionally from a single origin of replication, with replication proceeding at …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient CRISPR-Cas12f1-Mediated Multiplex Bacterial Genome Editing via Low-Temperature Recovery

SR Lim, HJ Kim, SJ Lee - Journal of microbiology and …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
CRISPR-Cas system is being used as a powerful genome editing tool with developments
focused on enhancing its efficiency and accuracy. Recently, the miniature CRISPR-Cas12f1 …

Genome replication in asynchronously growing microbial populations

FG Pflug, D Bhat, S Pigolotti - PLOS Computational Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Biological cells replicate their genomes in a well-planned manner. The DNA replication
program of an organism determines the timing at which different genomic regions are …

The high-resolution in vivo measurement of replication fork velocity and pausing by lag-time analysis

D Huang, AE Johnson, BS Sim, T Lo, H Merrikh… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
An important step towards understanding the mechanistic basis of the central dogma is the
quantitative characterization of the dynamics of nucleic-acid-bound molecular motors in the …

Stochasticity, conflicts, and instability: Biological strategies for optimal growth in a complex environment

D Huang - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Life is complicated. Even in the bacterium Escherichia coli, cell proliferation is dependent on
the maintenance of over 2000 small-molecule metabolites, as well as the synthesis of more …

Open Questions about the Roles of DnaA, Related Proteins and Hyperstructure Dynamics in the Cell Cycle: a Cobblestone in the Pond?

M Kohiyama, J Herrick, V Norris - 2023 - preprints.org
The DnaA protein has long been considered to play the key role in the initiation of
chromosome replication in modern bacteria. Many questions about this role, however …