Journal of Bacteriology, May 2000, p. 2989-2991, Vol. 182, No. 10
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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.
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