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Replication fork passage drives asymmetric dynamics of a critical nucleoid‐associated protein in Caulobacter

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In bacteria, chromosome dynamics and gene expression are modulated by nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs), but little is known about how NAP activity is coupled to cell cycle progression. Using genomic techniques, quantitative cell imaging, and mathematical modeling, our study in Caulobacter crescentus identifies a novel NAP (GapR) whose activity over the cell cycle is shaped by DNA replication. GapR activity is critical for cellular function, as loss of GapR causes severe, pleiotropic defects in growth, cell division, DNA replication, and chromosome segregation. GapR also affects global gene expression with a chromosomal bias from origin to terminus, which is associated with a similar general bias in GapR binding activity along the chromosome. Strikingly, this asymmetric localization cannot be explained by the distribution of GapR binding sites on the chromosome. Instead, we present a mechanistic model in which the spatiotemporal dynamics of GapR are primarily driven by the progression of the replication forks. This model represents a simple mechanism of cell cycle regulation, in which DNA-binding activity is intimately linked to the action of DNA replication.
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hal-03250031 , version 1 (15-06-2021)

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Rodrigo Arias‐cartin, Genevieve S Dobihal, Manuel Campos, Ivan V Surovtsev, Bradley Parry, et al.. Replication fork passage drives asymmetric dynamics of a critical nucleoid‐associated protein in Caulobacter. EMBO Journal, 2016, 36 (3), pp.301 - 318. ⟨10.15252/embj.201695513⟩. ⟨hal-03250031⟩
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