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van‘t Klooster JS, Bianchi F, Doorn RB, Lorenzon M, Lusseveld JH, Punter CM, Poolman B. Extracellular loops matter - subcellular location and function of the lysine transporter Lyp1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEBS J 2020; 287:4401-4414. [PMID: 32096906 PMCID: PMC7687128 DOI: 10.1111/febs.15262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2019] [Revised: 02/05/2020] [Accepted: 02/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
Abstract
Yeast amino acid transporters of the APC superfamily are responsible for the proton motive force-driven uptake of amino acids into the cell, which for most secondary transporters is a reversible process. The l-lysine proton symporter Lyp1 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is special in that the Michaelis constant from out-to-in transport ( K m out → in ) is much lower than K m in → out , which allows accumulation of l-lysine to submolar concentration. It has been proposed that high intracellular lysine is part of the antioxidant mechanism of the cell. The molecular basis for the unique kinetic properties of Lyp1 is unknown. We compared the sequence of Lyp1 with APC para- and orthologues and find structural features that set Lyp1 apart, including differences in extracellular loop regions. We screened the extracellular loops by alanine mutagenesis and determined Lyp1 localization and activity and find positions that affect either the localization or activity of Lyp1. Half of the affected mutants are located in the extension of extracellular loop 3 or in a predicted α-helix in extracellular loop 4. Our data indicate that extracellular loops not only connect the transmembrane helices but also serve functionally important roles.
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- Joury S. van‘t Klooster
- Department of BiochemistryGroningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenThe Netherlands
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- Department of BiochemistryGroningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenThe Netherlands
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- Department of BiochemistryGroningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenThe Netherlands
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- Department of BiochemistryGroningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenThe Netherlands
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- Department of BiochemistryGroningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenThe Netherlands
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- Department of BiochemistryGroningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenThe Netherlands
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- Department of BiochemistryGroningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology InstituteUniversity of GroningenThe Netherlands
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Syga Ł, Spakman D, Punter CM, Poolman B. Method for immobilization of living and synthetic cells for high-resolution imaging and single-particle tracking. Sci Rep 2018; 8:13789. [PMID: 30213985 PMCID: PMC6137044 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32166-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2018] [Accepted: 08/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Super-resolution imaging and single-particle tracking require cells to be immobile as any movement reduces the resolution of the measurements. Here, we present a method based on APTES-glutaraldehyde coating of glass surfaces to immobilize cells without compromising their growth. Our method of immobilization is compatible with Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Escherichia coli, and synthetic cells (here, giant-unilamellar vesicles). The method introduces minimal background fluorescence and is suitable for imaging of single particles at high resolution. With S. cerevisiae we benchmarked the method against the commonly used concanavalin A approach. We show by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy that modifying surfaces with ConA introduces artifacts close to the glass surface, which are not present when immobilizing with the APTES-glutaraldehyde method. We demonstrate validity of the method by measuring the diffusion of membrane proteins in yeast with single-particle tracking and of lipids in giant-unilamellar vesicles with fluorescence recovery after photobleaching. Importantly, the physical properties and shape of the fragile GUVs are not affected upon binding to APTES-glutaraldehyde coated glass. The APTES-glutaraldehyde is a generic method of immobilization that should work with any cell or synthetic system that has primary amines on the surface.
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- Łukasz Syga
- Department of Biochemistry University of Groningen Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biochemistry University of Groningen Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biochemistry University of Groningen Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biochemistry University of Groningen Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Bianchi F, Syga Ł, Moiset G, Spakman D, Schavemaker PE, Punter CM, Seinen AB, van Oijen AM, Robinson A, Poolman B. Steric exclusion and protein conformation determine the localization of plasma membrane transporters. Nat Commun 2018; 9:501. [PMID: 29402931 PMCID: PMC5799302 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-02864-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2016] [Accepted: 01/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
The plasma membrane (PM) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains membrane compartments, MCC/eisosomes and MCPs, named after the protein residents Can1 and Pma1, respectively. Using high-resolution fluorescence microscopy techniques we show that Can1 and the homologous transporter Lyp1 are able to diffuse into the MCC/eisosomes, where a limited number of proteins are conditionally trapped at the (outer) edge of the compartment. Upon addition of substrate, the immobilized proteins diffuse away from the MCC/eisosomes, presumably after taking a different conformation in the substrate-bound state. Our data indicate that the mobile fraction of all integral plasma membrane proteins tested shows extremely slow Brownian diffusion through most of the PM. We also show that proteins with large cytoplasmic domains, such as Pma1 and synthetic chimera of Can1 and Lyp1, are excluded from the MCC/eisosomes. We hypothesize that the distinct localization patterns found for these integral membrane proteins in S. cerevisiae arises from a combination of slow lateral diffusion, steric exclusion, and conditional trapping in membrane compartments.
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- Frans Bianchi
- Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9700AB, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9700AB, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9700AB, Groningen, The Netherlands.,Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Nijenborgh 4, 9747AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9700AB, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9700AB, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9700AB, Groningen, The Netherlands.,Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Nijenborgh 4, 9747AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9700AB, Groningen, The Netherlands.,Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Nijenborgh 4, 9747AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Nijenborgh 4, 9747AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Nijenborgh 4, 9747AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9700AB, Groningen, The Netherlands. .,Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Nijenborgh 4, 9747AG, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Duderstadt KE, Geertsema HJ, Stratmann SA, Punter CM, Kulczyk AW, Richardson CC, van Oijen AM. Simultaneous Real-Time Imaging of Leading and Lagging Strand Synthesis Reveals the Coordination Dynamics of Single Replisomes. Mol Cell 2016; 64:1035-1047. [PMID: 27889453 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.10.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2016] [Revised: 05/18/2016] [Accepted: 10/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The molecular machinery responsible for DNA replication, the replisome, must efficiently coordinate DNA unwinding with priming and synthesis to complete duplication of both strands. Due to the anti-parallel nature of DNA, the leading strand is copied continuously, while the lagging strand is produced by repeated cycles of priming, DNA looping, and Okazaki-fragment synthesis. Here, we report a multidimensional single-molecule approach to visualize this coordination in the bacteriophage T7 replisome by simultaneously monitoring the kinetics of loop growth and leading-strand synthesis. We show that loops in the lagging strand predominantly occur during priming and only infrequently support subsequent Okazaki-fragment synthesis. Fluorescence imaging reveals polymerases remaining bound to the lagging strand behind the replication fork, consistent with Okazaki-fragment synthesis behind and independent of the replication complex. Individual replisomes display both looping and pausing during priming, reconciling divergent models for the regulation of primer synthesis and revealing an underlying plasticity in replisome operation.
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- Karl E Duderstadt
- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials and Centre for Synthetic Biology, University of Groningen, 9700 AB Groningen, the Netherlands; Structure and Dynamics of Molecular Machines, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, 82152 Martinsried, Germany; Physik Department, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany.
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials and Centre for Synthetic Biology, University of Groningen, 9700 AB Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials and Centre for Synthetic Biology, University of Groningen, 9700 AB Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials and Centre for Synthetic Biology, University of Groningen, 9700 AB Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials and Centre for Synthetic Biology, University of Groningen, 9700 AB Groningen, the Netherlands; Centre for Medical and Molecular Bioscience, Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.
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Ghodke H, Caldas VEA, Punter CM, van Oijen AM, Robinson A. Single-Molecule Specific Mislocalization of Red Fluorescent Proteins in Live Escherichia coli. Biophys J 2016; 111:25-7. [PMID: 27338860 PMCID: PMC4944719 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.05.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2016] [Revised: 05/25/2016] [Accepted: 05/31/2016] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Tagging of individual proteins with genetically encoded fluorescent proteins (FPs) has been used extensively to study localization and interactions in live cells. Recent developments in single-molecule localization microscopy have enabled the dynamic visualization of individual tagged proteins inside living cells. However, tagging proteins with FPs is not without problems: formation of insoluble aggregates and inhibition of native functions of the protein are well-known issues. Previously reported artifacts manifest themselves at all expression levels of the FP-tagged proteins, making the design of control experiments relatively straightforward. Here, we describe a previously uncharacterized mislocalization artifact of Entacmaea quadricolor red fluorescent protein variants that is detectable at the single-molecule level in live Escherichia coli cells.
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- Harshad Ghodke
- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
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Caldas VEA, Punter CM, Ghodke H, Robinson A, van Oijen AM. iSBatch: a batch-processing platform for data analysis and exploration of live-cell single-molecule microscopy images and other hierarchical datasets. Mol Biosyst 2016. [PMID: 26198886 DOI: 10.1039/c5mb00321k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
Recent technical advances have made it possible to visualize single molecules inside live cells. Microscopes with single-molecule sensitivity enable the imaging of low-abundance proteins, allowing for a quantitative characterization of molecular properties. Such data sets contain information on a wide spectrum of important molecular properties, with different aspects highlighted in different imaging strategies. The time-lapsed acquisition of images provides information on protein dynamics over long time scales, giving insight into expression dynamics and localization properties. Rapid burst imaging reveals properties of individual molecules in real-time, informing on their diffusion characteristics, binding dynamics and stoichiometries within complexes. This richness of information, however, adds significant complexity to analysis protocols. In general, large datasets of images must be collected and processed in order to produce statistically robust results and identify rare events. More importantly, as live-cell single-molecule measurements remain on the cutting edge of imaging, few protocols for analysis have been established and thus analysis strategies often need to be explored for each individual scenario. Existing analysis packages are geared towards either single-cell imaging data or in vitro single-molecule data and typically operate with highly specific algorithms developed for particular situations. Our tool, iSBatch, instead allows users to exploit the inherent flexibility of the popular open-source package ImageJ, providing a hierarchical framework in which existing plugins or custom macros may be executed over entire datasets or portions thereof. This strategy affords users freedom to explore new analysis protocols within large imaging datasets, while maintaining hierarchical relationships between experiments, samples, fields of view, cells, and individual molecules.
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- Victor E A Caldas
- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Centre for Synthetic Biology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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Robinson A, McDonald JP, Caldas VEA, Patel M, Wood EA, Punter CM, Ghodke H, Cox MM, Woodgate R, Goodman MF, van Oijen AM. Regulation of Mutagenic DNA Polymerase V Activation in Space and Time. PLoS Genet 2015; 11:e1005482. [PMID: 26317348 PMCID: PMC4552617 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2015] [Accepted: 08/03/2015] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Spatial regulation is often encountered as a component of multi-tiered regulatory systems in eukaryotes, where processes are readily segregated by organelle boundaries. Well-characterized examples of spatial regulation are less common in bacteria. Low-fidelity DNA polymerase V (UmuD′2C) is produced in Escherichia coli as part of the bacterial SOS response to DNA damage. Due to the mutagenic potential of this enzyme, pol V activity is controlled by means of an elaborate regulatory system at transcriptional and posttranslational levels. Using single-molecule fluorescence microscopy to visualize UmuC inside living cells in space and time, we now show that pol V is also subject to a novel form of spatial regulation. After an initial delay (~ 45 min) post UV irradiation, UmuC is synthesized, but is not immediately activated. Instead, it is sequestered at the inner cell membrane. The release of UmuC into the cytosol requires the RecA* nucleoprotein filament-mediated cleavage of UmuD→UmuD′. Classic SOS damage response mutants either block [umuD(K97A)] or constitutively stimulate [recA(E38K)] UmuC release from the membrane. Foci of mutagenically active pol V Mut (UmuD′2C-RecA-ATP) formed in the cytosol after UV irradiation do not co-localize with pol III replisomes, suggesting a capacity to promote translesion DNA synthesis at lesions skipped over by DNA polymerase III. In effect, at least three molecular mechanisms limit the amount of time that pol V has to access DNA: (1) transcriptional and posttranslational regulation that initially keep the intracellular levels of pol V to a minimum; (2) spatial regulation via transient sequestration of UmuC at the membrane, which further delays pol V activation; and (3) the hydrolytic activity of a recently discovered pol V Mut ATPase function that limits active polymerase time on the chromosomal template. Escherichia coli, and many other bacteria, respond to high levels of DNA damage with an inducible system called the SOS response. In this response, bacteria first try to restart replication using non-mutagenic DNA repair strategies. If that fails, replication can be restored using DNA polymerases that simply replicate over DNA lesions, a desperation strategy that results in mutations. DNA polymerase V (pol V) is responsible for most mutagenesis that accompanies the SOS response. Because of the risk inherent to elevated mutation levels, pol V activation is tightly constrained. This report introduces a new layer of regulation on pol V activation, with a novel spatial component. After synthesis, the UmuC subunit of pol V is sequestered transiently at the membrane. Release into the cytosol and final activation depends on the activity of RecA protein and the autocatalytic cleavage of UmuD to generate the UmuD' subunit of pol V. The resulting delay in activation represents an additional molecular mechanism that limits the amount of time that this sometimes necessary but potentially detrimental enzyme spends on the DNA.
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- Andrew Robinson
- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Centre for Synthetic Biology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Genomic Integrity, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Centre for Synthetic Biology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Centre for Synthetic Biology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Centre for Synthetic Biology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Genomic Integrity, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Centre for Synthetic Biology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Duderstadt KE, Punter CM, Kulczyk AW, Richardson CC, van Oijen AM. Simultaneous Imaging of Leading- and Lagging-Strand Synthesis Reveals Distinct Operational Modes of Single Replication Machines. Biophys J 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.11.1600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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