Paulsson:Pmalkus papers

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Plasmids

1. Thomas CM. Transcription regulatory circuits in bacterial plasmids. Biochem Soc Trans. 2006 Dec;34(Pt 6):1072-4. DOI:10.1042/BST0341072 |
2. Boye E, Stokke T, Kleckner N, and Skarstad K. Coordinating DNA replication initiation with cell growth: differential roles for DnaA and SeqA proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996 Oct 29;93(22):12206-11. DOI:10.1073/pnas.93.22.12206 |
3. Womble DD and Rownd RH. Regulation of mini-F plasmid DNA replication. A quantitative model for control of plasmid mini-F replication in the bacterial cell division cycle. J Mol Biol. 1987 May 5;195(1):99-113. DOI:10.1016/0022-2836(87)90330-5 |
4. Kornacki JA and Firshein W. Replication of plasmid RK2 in vitro by a DNA-membrane complex: evidence for initiation of replication and its coupling to transcription and translation. J Bacteriol. 1986 Jul;167(1):319-26. DOI:10.1128/jb.167.1.319-326.1986 |
5. Gerdes K, Rasmussen PB, and Molin S. Unique type of plasmid maintenance function: postsegregational killing of plasmid-free cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1986 May;83(10):3116-20. DOI:10.1073/pnas.83.10.3116 |
6. Karunakaran P, Blatny JM, Ertesvåg H, and Valla S. Species-dependent phenotypes of replication-temperature-sensitive trfA mutants of plasmid RK2: a codon-neutral base substitution stimulates temperature sensitivity by leading to reduced levels of trfA expression. J Bacteriol. 1998 Aug;180(15):3793-8. DOI:10.1128/JB.180.15.3793-3798.1998 |
7. Blasina A, Kittell BL, Toukdarian AE, and Helinski DR. Copy-up mutants of the plasmid RK2 replication initiation protein are defective in coupling RK2 replication origins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996 Apr 16;93(8):3559-64. DOI:10.1073/pnas.93.8.3559 |
8. Firshein W and Kim P. Plasmid replication and partition in Escherichia coli: is the cell membrane the key?. Mol Microbiol. 1997 Jan;23(1):1-10. DOI:10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.2061569.x |
9. Zzaman S, Abhyankar MM, and Bastia D. Reconstitution of F factor DNA replication in vitro with purified proteins. J Biol Chem. 2004 Apr 23;279(17):17404-10. DOI:10.1074/jbc.M400021200 |
10. Conley DL and Cohen SN. Isolation and characterization of plasmid mutations that enable partitioning of pSC101 replicons lacking the partition (par) locus. J Bacteriol. 1995 Feb;177(4):1086-9. DOI:10.1128/jb.177.4.1086-1089.1995 |
11. Miller C and Cohen SN. Separate roles of Escherichia coli replication proteins in synthesis and partitioning of pSC101 plasmid DNA. J Bacteriol. 1999 Dec;181(24):7552-7. DOI:10.1128/JB.181.24.7552-7557.1999 |
12. Kim PD, Rosche TM, and Firshein W. Identification of a potential membrane-targeting region of the replication initiator protein (TrfA) of broad-host-range plasmid RK2. Plasmid. 2000 May;43(3):214-22. DOI:10.1006/plas.2000.1467 |

Partitioning

13. Ho TQ, Zhong Z, Aung S, and Pogliano J. Compatible bacterial plasmids are targeted to independent cellular locations in Escherichia coli. EMBO J. 2002 Apr 2;21(7):1864-72. DOI:10.1093/emboj/21.7.1864 |

    Use FISH to simultaneously analyze localization of F, P1, and RK2 plasmids (from separate incompatibility groups). Find that they are spatially segregated.

14. Pogliano J, Ho TQ, Zhong Z, and Helinski DR. Multicopy plasmids are clustered and localized in Escherichia coli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Apr 10;98(8):4486-91. DOI:10.1073/pnas.081075798 |

    RK2 and pUC19 localization using lacO/GFP-LacI system. Plasmids usually in just a few foci at center or quater positions. Number of foci increases with cell length and growth rate.

15. Lau IF, Filipe SR, Søballe B, Økstad OA, Barre FX, and Sherratt DJ. Spatial and temporal organization of replicating Escherichia coli chromosomes. Mol Microbiol. 2003 Aug;49(3):731-43. DOI:10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03640.x |

    Generated lacO and teO arrays with random inter-operator sequences.

16. Møller-Jensen J, Borch J, Dam M, Jensen RB, Roepstorff P, and Gerdes K. Bacterial mitosis: ParM of plasmid R1 moves plasmid DNA by an actin-like insertional polymerization mechanism. Mol Cell. 2003 Dec;12(6):1477-87. DOI:10.1016/s1097-2765(03)00451-9 |

    Plasmid R1 partitioning by F-actin like filaments formed by ParM

16. Møller-Jensen J, Jensen RB, Löwe J, and Gerdes K. Prokaryotic DNA segregation by an actin-like filament. EMBO J. 2002 Jun 17;21(12):3119-27. DOI:10.1093/emboj/cdf320 |

Fluorescent proteins

17. Griesbeck O, Baird GS, Campbell RE, Zacharias DA, and Tsien RY. Reducing the environmental sensitivity of yellow fluorescent protein. Mechanism and applications. J Biol Chem. 2001 Aug 3;276(31):29188-94. DOI:10.1074/jbc.M102815200 |

18. Hsieh M and Brenowitz M. Comparison of the DNA association kinetics of the Lac repressor tetramer, its dimeric mutant LacIadi, and the native dimeric Gal repressor. J Biol Chem. 1997 Aug 29;272(35):22092-6. DOI:10.1074/jbc.272.35.22092 |