| Range |
~300 nts/sec
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| Organism |
Archaea Pyrococcus abyssi |
| Reference |
Rocha EP. The replication-related organization of bacterial genomes. Microbiology. 2004 Jun150(Pt 6):1609-27. p.1610 left column 2nd paragraphPubMed ID15184548
|
| Primary Source |
Myllykallio, H. et al., (2000). Bacterial mode of replication with eukaryotic-like machinery in a hyperthermophilic archaeon. Science 288 , 2212–2215.PubMed ID10864870
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| Comments |
"In each replication fork, a complex with two DNA polymerases replicates the two DNA strands. The pace of the replication fork varies significantly between bacteria. For example, in E. coli the fork progresses at ~1000 nt/s ,in Pyrococcus abyssi at ~300 nt/s (primary source) and in Mycoplasma capricolum at ~100 nt/s (Seto & Miyata, 1998). Thus
although the
M. capricolum
genome is seven times smaller
than that of
E. coli
, it takes longer to be replicated." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
110933 |