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Science 23 June 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5474, pp. 2212 - 2215
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5474.2212
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Bacterial Mode of Replication with Eukaryotic-Like Machinery in a Hyperthermophilic Archaeon

Hannu Myllykallio, 1 Philippe Lopez, 2 Purificación López-García, 1* Roland Heilig, 3 William Saurin, 3 Yvan Zivanovic, 1 Hervé Philippe, 2 Patrick Forterre 1dagger

Despite a rapid increase in the amount of available archaeal sequence information, little is known about the duplication of genetic material in the third domain of life. We identified a single origin of bidirectional replication in Pyrococcus abyssi by means of in silico analyses of cumulative oligomer skew and the identification of an early replicating chromosomal segment. The replication origin in three Pyrococcus species was found to be highly conserved, and several eukaryotic-like DNA replication genes were clustered around it. As in Bacteria, the chromosomal region containing the replication terminus was a hot spot of genome shuffling. Thus, although bacterial and archaeal replication proteins differ profoundly, they are used to replicate chromosomes in a similar manner in both prokaryotic domains.

1 Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie,
2 Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, Université de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.
3 Génoscope, Centre National de Séquençage, Evry, France.
*   Present address: Department of Microbiology, Universidad Miguel Hernández, 03550 San Juan de Alicante, Spain.

dagger    To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: forterre{at}igmors.u-psud.fr

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