Replication–transcription conflicts in bacteria

DNA replication and transcription use the same template and occur concurrently in bacteria. The lack of temporal and spatial separation of these two processes leads to their conflict, and failure to deal with this conflict can result in genome alterations and reduced fitness. In recent years major a...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Merrikh, Houra, Zhang, Yan, Wang, Jue D., Grossman, Alan Davis
مؤلفون آخرون: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
التنسيق: مقال
اللغة:en_US
منشور في: Nature Publishing Group 2013
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77912
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8235-7227
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الملخص:DNA replication and transcription use the same template and occur concurrently in bacteria. The lack of temporal and spatial separation of these two processes leads to their conflict, and failure to deal with this conflict can result in genome alterations and reduced fitness. In recent years major advances have been made in understanding how cells avoid conflicts between replication and transcription and how such conflicts are resolved when they do occur. In this Review, we summarize these findings, which shed light on the significance of the problem and on how bacterial cells deal with unwanted encounters between the replication and transcription machineries.