Imagine a bacterial cell—one of the multi-drug-resistant varieties that keep infectious disease experts up at night—blown ...

LINE-1, a "jumping gene" making up 20% of the genome, invades DNA during cell division using protein-RNA clusters, offering ...

Not all DNA looks like the familiar twisted ladder. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes. One such ...

To adapt to changing environmental pressures, bacteria have developed various methods ... that provide the energy for pilus synthesis and DNA transport through the complex. The pilus is the structure ...

the structure and maintenance of these DNA ends are unique. This study utilized two different types of bacteria, each representing a different type of telomere: hairpin-shaped telomeres or ...

MSK researchers are shedding new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that can cause DNA replication to stall ... atomic scale needed to see what’s going on. Studies in bacteria ...

Intriguingly and unexpectedly, the Aca protein we investigated does both – even though its structure would ... phage replicates its DNA in the bacterial cell. This replication will invariably ...

DNA Replication diagram. DNA Polymerase enzyme syntheses ... the microbiological process of reproduction of the simplest microorganisms microbes, bacteria, protein. Vector realistic illustration of a ...

The basic structure of replication origins is conserved ... In all three domains of life, DNA replication begins at replication origins. In bacteria, replication typically initiates from a single ...

By examining how DNA replication affects gene transcription ... building of proteins that make up the microbe’s structure. For this reason, understanding how mRNA production is regulated for each ...

In this mini-review, we discuss the current state of knowledge concerning the structure of the origin region in bacterial chromosomes ... shed new light on how the replication origin is opened, a ...