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NATURE
Volume 456, Issue 7223, Pages 762-U51Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature07527
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- National Institutes of Health
- Marie-Josee and Henry Kravis Fellowship at the Rockefeller University
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Replication forks are impeded by DNA damage and protein - nucleic acid complexes such as transcribing RNA polymerase. For example, head- on collision of the replisome with RNA polymerase results in replication fork arrest. However, co- directional collision of the replisome with RNA polymerase has little or no effect on fork progression. Here we examine co- directional collisions between a replisome and RNA polymerase in vitro. We show that the Escherichia coli replisome uses the RNAtranscript as a primer to continue leading- strand synthesis after the collision with RNA polymerase that is displaced from the DNA. This action results in a discontinuity in the leading strand, yet the replisome remains intact and bound to DNA during the entire process. These findings underscore the notable plasticity by which the replisome operates to circumvent obstacles in its path and may explain why the leading strand is synthesized discontinuously in vivo.
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