Bacteria use their DNA replication cycle to time critical, once-in-a-lifetime decisions about whether to reproduce or form spores. The new finding by researchers from Rice University, the ...

What they found is that bacteria use their DNA replication cycle to time critical, once-in-a-lifetime decisions about whether to reproduce or form spores. Skip to main content.

A typical bacterial cell has anywhere from about 1 million to 4 million base pairs of DNA, compared to the 3 billion base pairs in the genome of the common house mouse (Mus musculus).Still, even ...

Bacteria use a range of regulatory strategies to control replication initiation, many of which are tightly connected to the activities of the bacterial initiator DnaA. Here, Melissa Mott and James ...

In this bacteria, DNA replication takes a long time, making it an attractive model. "Some things are better to do during the day, like photosynthesis, while others are better at night, like fixing ...

How the bacterial replicative helicase opens to start DNA replication process. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 17, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 02 / 190226155025.htm ...

Cell division is fundamental for life, allowing organisms to grow, repair tissues, and reproduce. For a cell to divide, all the DNA inside the cell (the genome) must first be copied, in a process ...

More information: "A prophage-encoded actin-like protein required for efficient viral DNA replication in bacteria." Nucl. Acids Res . first published online April 27, 2015 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv374 ...

Thus the bacterial cell uses its normal DNA replication and repair processes to identify phage DNA, checking and double-checking that the new DNA differs in two fundamental ways from the "self ...

Inaccuracy of DNA replication poses novel health risk. ... Rosenstein, A.H., et al. (2021) Fidelity of a bacterial DNA polymerase in microgravity, a model for human health in space.

Rice University researchers have found that in spore-forming bacteria, chromosomal locations of genes can couple the DNA replication cycle to critical decisions about whether to reproduce or form ...