Chromosome Dynamics in Bacteria: Triggering Replication at the Opposite Location and Segregation in the Opposite Direction

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Ady B MelendezPaola E Mera

Abstract

Maintaining the integrity of the genome is essential to cell survival. In the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus, the single circular chromosome exhibits a specific orientation in the cell, with the replication origin (ori) residing at the pole of the cell bearing a stalk. Upon initiation of replication, the duplicated centromere-like region parS and ori move rapidly to the opposite pole where parS is captured by a microdomain hosting a unique set of proteins that contribute to the identity of progeny cells. Many questions remain as to how this organization is maintained. In this study, we constructed strains of Caulobacter in which ori and the parS centromere can be induced to move to the opposite cell pole in the absence of chromosome replication, allowing us to ask whether once these chromosomal foci were positioned at the wrong pole, replication initiation and chromosome segregation can proceed in the opposite orientation. Our data reveal that DnaA can initiate replication and ParA can orchestrate segregation from either cell pole. The cell reconstructs the organization of its ParA gradient in the opposite orientation to segregate one replicated centromere from the new pole toward the stalked pole (i.e., opposite direction), ...Continue Reading

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