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The role of E. coli dnaB and dnaC protein in the replication of plasmid ColE1 and RSF1030 DNA was investigated in a soluble in vitro system (Staudenbauer, 1976a). Extracts from dnaB and dnaC mutants which are phenotypically DNA initiationor DNA elongation-defective were examined for their replicative capacity. It was found that all mutants tested are deficient in the synthesis of supercoiled plasmid DNA. Deficient extracts of dnaB mutants could be partially complemented by purified dnaB wild type protein but required for full complementation dnaC wild type protein as well. The dnaB wild type protein could be replaced by a P1dnaB analog (ban) protein complexed with a dnaB ts protein. Deficient extracts of dnaC mutants were complemented by purified dnaC wild type protein alone.
The in vitro plasmid replication cycle had been separated into an early and late stage (Staudenbauer, 1977). Analysis by CsCl velocity centrifugation of the plasmid DNA synthesized in mutant extracts indicates that the early stage, namely the synthesis of early replicative intermediates, proceeds in all dnaB and dnaC mutants tested. However, replication of the early intermediates during the late stage depends on both the dnaB and dnaC protein. These conclusions were confirmed using inhibitors of DNA synthesis.
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Staudenbauer, W.L., Lanka, E. & Schuster, H. Replication of small plasmids in extracts of Escherichia coli . Molec. Gen. Genet. 162, 243–249 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00268849
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