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. 1979 Feb;137(2):740–745. doi: 10.1128/jb.137.2.740-745.1979

Deoxyribonucleic acid-membrane interactions near the origin of replication and initiation of deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis in Escherichia coli.

B L Craine, C S Rupert
PMCID: PMC218351  PMID: 370098

Abstract

A previously reported salt-sensitive binding of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to the cell envelope in Escherichia coli, involving approximately one site per chromosome near the origin of DNA replication, is rapidly disrupted in vivo by rifampin or chloramphenicol treatment and by amino acid starvation. DNA replication still initiates with this origin-specific binding disrupted, even when the disruption extends over the period of obligatory protein and ribonucleic acid synthesis that must precede initiation after release of cells from amino acid starvation. Thus the origin-associated membrane-DNA interaction is not necessary either for the initiation event itself or for the maturation of a putative initiation apparatus in E. coli.

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