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Journal of Bacteriology, May 2000, p. 2989-2991, Vol. 182, No. 10
0021-9193/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Control of Initiation of Sporulation by Replication Initiation Genes in Bacillus subtilis

Katherine P. Lemon, Iren Kurtser, Judy Wu, and Alan D. Grossman*

Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Received 17 December 1999/Accepted 23 February 2000

Initiation of spore formation in Bacillus subtilis appears to depend on initiation of DNA replication. This regulation was first identified using a temperature-sensitive mutation in dnaB. We found that mutations in the replication initiation genes dnaA and dnaD also inhibit sporulation, indicating that inhibition of sporulation is triggered by general defects in the function of replication initiation proteins.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biology, Building 68-530, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. Phone: (617) 253-1515. Fax: (617) 253-2643. E-mail: adg{at}mit.edu.

Journal of Bacteriology, May 2000, p. 2989-2991, Vol. 182, No. 10
0021-9193/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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