Abstract
Escherichia coli strains carrying null mutations in priA are chronically induced for the SOS response and are defective in homologous recombination, repair of UV damaged DNA, double-strand break repair, and both induced and constitutive stable DNA replication. This led to the proposal that PriA directed replication fork assembly at D loops formed by the homologous recombination machinery. The demonstration that PriA specifically recognized and bound D loop DNA supported this hypothesis. Using DNA footprinting as an assay, we show here that PriA also directs the assembly of a varphiX174-type primosome on D loop DNA. The ability to load a complete primosome on D loop DNA is a step necessary for replication fork assembly.
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