| Literature DB >> 11948168 |
Dvora Berenstein1, Kirsten Olesen, Christian Speck, Ole Skovgaard.
Abstract
The Vibrionaceae family is distantly related to Enterobacteriaceae within the group of bacteria possessing the Dam methylase system. We have cloned, sequenced, and analyzed the dnaA gene region of Vibrio harveyi and found that although the organization of the V. harveyi dnaA region differs from that of Escherichia coli, the expression of both genes is autoregulated and ATP-DnaA binds cooperatively to ATP-DnaA boxes in the dnaA promoter region. The DnaA proteins of V. harveyi and E. coli are interchangeable and function nearly identically in controlling dnaA transcription and the initiation of chromosomal DNA replication despite the evolutionary distance between these bacteria.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 11948168 PMCID: PMC134989 DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.9.2533-2538.2002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490