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Abstract

Plasmid-encoded partition genes determine the dynamic localization of plasmid molecules from the mid-cell position to the 1/4 and 3/4 positions. Similarly, bacterial homologs of the plasmid genes participate in controlling the bidirectional migration of the replication origin () regions during sporulation and vegetative growth in , but not in . In , but not , the chromosomal DNA is fully methylated by DNA adenine methyltransferase. The SeqA protein, which binds preferentially to hemimethylated nascent DNA strands, exists as discrete foci in vivo. A single SeqA focus, which is a SeqA-hemimethylated DNA cluster, splits into two foci that then abruptly migrate bidirectionally to the 1/4 and 3/4 positions during replication. Replicated copies are linked to each other for a substantial period of generation time, before separating from each other and migrating in opposite directions. The MukFEB complex of and Smc of appear to participate in the reorganization of bacterial sister chromosomes.

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2000-12-01
2024-10-11
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