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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 279, Issue 40, Pages 42337-42344Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M407552200
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA95908, CA84302, P30 CA16056] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM49294] Funding Source: Medline
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Previous studies in budding yeast suggested that the default firing time of most DNA replication origins is early in S phase and that origins can be forced to fire later by proximity to certain cis-acting sequences. However, these cis-acting sequences were not well defined. We have attempted to characterize cis-acting sequences that affect replication timing in the fission yeast. We identified a stretch of 200 bp that was sufficient to compel nearby origins to fire late. The 200-bp stretch was able to force an origin to fire late whether adjacent to the origin or similar to800 bp away in opposite orientation. The stretch contains a cluster of three close matches to a G-rich, 10-bp late consensus sequence (LCS). The three LCS elements cooperate with each other and with other sequences within the 200-bp stretch to enforce late replication. Although only a few origins that fire in very late S phase have been identified in fission yeast, all of them are located close to a cluster of LCS elements.
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