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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 33, Issue 21, Pages 6931-6941Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki994
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Initiation of DNA replication is tightly controlled during the cell cycle to maintain genome integrity. In order to directly study this control we have previously established a cell-free system from human cells that initiates semi-conservative DNA replication. Template nuclei are isolated from cells synchronized in late G(1) phase by mimosine. We have now used DNA combing to investigate initiation and further progression of DNA replication forks in this human in vitro system at single molecule level. We obtained direct evidence for bidirectional initiation of divergently moving replication forks in vitro. We assessed quantitatively replication fork initiation patterns, fork movement rates and overall fork density. Individual replication forks progress at highly heterogeneous rates (304 +/- 162 bp/min) and the two forks emanating from a single origin progress independently from each other. Fork progression rates also change at the single fork level, suggesting that replication fork stalling occurs. DNA combing provides a powerful approach to analyse dynamics of human DNA replication in vitro.
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