DnaA Initiator--also a Transcription Factor

Overview

Journal Mol Microbiol

Specialties Microbiology
Molecular Biology

Date 1997 Apr 1

PMID 9140960

Citations 66

Authors

W Messer

C Weigel

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Abstract

The replication-initiator protein DnaA is ubiquitous in the eubacterial world. It binds to an asymmetric 9 bp consensus DNA sequence, the DnaA box. Besides its primary function as an initiator, it acts as a transcription factor that represses or activates several genes, or terminates transcription, depending on the location and arrangement of DnaA boxes.

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