ChromosomaI Segregation
May Require Site-Specific
Recombination
41.5
Partitioni ng Involves Separation
of the Chromosomes
417
Singte-Copy
Plasmids Have a
Partitioning
System
479
Plasmid
Incompatibitity Is Determined
by the
Rep[icon 421
The CotEr Compatibitity
System Is Controtled
by an RNA
Regutator 422
How
Do Mitochondria Replicate and Segregate?
424
Summary 425
18 DNA Replication 428
Introduction 429
DNA Polymerases
Are
the
Enzymes That
Make DNA 430
DNA Polymerases Have Various
Nuctease Activities
431'
DNA Potymerases Control the
Fidel.ity of Reptication
432
DNA
Potymerases Have a Common Structure
433
DNA Synthesis
Is
Semidiscontinuous
434
The <pX Model System Shows
How Single-Stranded
DNA
Is
Generated
for
Reolication
435
Priming
Is Required to Start
DNA
Synthesis
437
DNA
Potymerase Hotoenzyme
Has Three
Subcomptexes 439
The Ctamp Controls
Association of Core
Enzyme
with
DNA
440
Coordinating
Synthesis ofthe
Lagging and
Leading
Strands 442
0kazaki
Fragments Are Linked by
Ligase 443
Separate
Eukaryotic
DNA Potymerases Undertake
Initiation and
Elongation 444
Phage
T4 Provides lts Own Reptication
Apparatus 445
Creating
the Replication
Forks at an 0rigin
448
Common
Events
jn
Priming Replication
at the
0rigin 450
The
Primosome Is
Needed
to
Restart Reptication
451
Summary
453
19
Homologous and Site-Specific
Recombination
457
Introduction 459
Homotogous
Recombination Occurs
between
Synapsed
Chromosomes
460
Breakage and
Reunion
Involves Heteroduptex
DNA 462
Doubte-Strand
Breaks Initiate Recombination
464
Recombining
Chromosomes
Are Connected
by the
Synaptonema[
ComP[ex
465
The
SynaptonemaI
Complex
Forms after
Doubte-Strand
Breaks
467
Pairing
and
Synaptonemal
Complex
Formation
Are
Indeoendent
469
The Bacterial
RecBCD
System
Is Stimutated
by
chi Sequences
470
Strand-Transfer
Proteins
Catalyze
Single-Strand
Assimilation
471'
The Ruv
System
Resolves
Hol.l.iday
Junctions
473
Gene Conversion
Accounts
for
Intera[[e[ic
Recombination
475
Supercoiting
Affects
the
Structure
of
DNA
476
Topoisomerases
Relax or
Introduce
Supercoits
in DNA
478
Topoisomerases
Break
and
Reseal
Strands
480
Gyrase
Functions
by
Coi[
Inversion
481'
Specialized
Recombination
Invo[ves
Specific
Sites
482
Site-Specific
Recombination
Involves
Breakage
and
Reunion
484
Site-Specific
Recombination
Resembles
Topoisomerase
Activity
484
Lambda
Recombination
0ccurs
in an
Intasome
486
Yeast Can
Switch
Sitent
and
Active
Loci for
Mating
Type
488
Ihe
MAT Locus
Codes
for Regulator
Proteins
490
Sitent
Cassettes
at
HML
and
HMR
Are Repressed
492
UnidirectionaI
Transposition
Is
Initiated
by the
Recipient
MAT
Locus 493
Regulation
of
H0
Expression
Controts
Switching
494
Summary
496
20
Repair
Systems
499
Introduction
500
Repair
Systems
Correct
Damage
to
DNA
502
Excision
Repair
Systems
in E. coli
503
Excision-Repair
Pathways
in
Mammalian
Celts 504
Base
Flipping
Is Used
by
Methytases
and
Gtycosytases
506
Error-Prone
Repair
and
Mutator
Phenotypes
507
Controlling
the
Direction
of
Mismatch
Repair 507
Recombination-Repair
Systems
in E. coli
510
Recombination
Is an
Important
Mechanism
to
Recover
from
Replication
Errors
51'1'
RecA
Triggers
the
S0S
SYstem
513
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