Absence of RstA results in delayed initiation of DNA replication in Escherichia coli.

RstB/RstA is an uncharacterized Escherichia coli two-component system, the regulatory effects of which on the E. coli cell cycle remain unclear. We found that the doubling time and average number of replication origins per cell in an ΔrstB mutant were the same as the wild-type, and the average numbe...

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Main Authors: Yuan Yao, Yong Ma, Xiuli Chen, Rengui Bade, Cuilan Lv, Runxiu Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6047807?pdf=render