Mean DNA replication rate

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Value 2.9 kb/min Range: 0.5-11 kb/min
Organism Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Reference Sekedat MD, Fenyö D, Rogers RS, Tackett AJ, Aitchison JD, Chait BT. GINS motion reveals replication fork progression is remarkably uniform throughout the yeast genome. Mol Syst Biol. 2010 6: 353. doi: 10.1038/msb.2010.8 p.2 left column 3rd paragraphPubMed ID20212525
Primary Source Raghuraman et al., Replication dynamics of the yeast genome. Science. 2001 Oct 5 294(5540):115-21.PubMed ID11588253
Method Oligonucleotide microarrays
Comments "A wide range of nucleotide incorporation rates (0.5–11 kb/min) were observed, with a mean of 2.9 kb/min (primary source), whereas a second study reported a comparable mean rate of DNA duplication of 2.8±1.0 kb/min (BNID 110150)."
Entered by Uri M
ID 110149