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Researchers explain how the replication of bacterial plasmids starts

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 25.05.2009

Researchers explain how the replication of bacterial plasmids starts

Plasmid replication is undertaken by complex machinery and the description of this machinery is one of the objectives of the group headed by Miquel Coll, researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) -located at the Barcelona Science Park- and research professor at the "Instituto de Biología Molecular de Barcelona", part of the CSIC. Working with other scientists at CSIC's "Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas" (CIB) in Madrid, Coll has determined the molecular structure of the protein RepB and has described how it operates as the initiator of replication. EMBO Journal has published the results of the study, whose first author is Roeland Boer, post-doc researcher at IRB Barcelona.

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