Bacterial DNA Replication and Replication Inhibitors
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2017) | Viewed by 48052
Special Issue Editor
Interests: bacterial cell cycle; mechanism and regulation of chromosomal replication initiation; initiator proteins; DNA methylation; antibiotic inhibition of chromosome replication; designing whole cell screens for discovery of new antibiotics; antimicrobial peptides
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Antibiotics is dedicated to the topic of "Bacterial DNA Replication and Replication Inhibitors". DNA replication is a conserved and essential process in all organisms, yet significant differences exist between replication proteins of bacteria and eukaryotic cells. Following replication initiation, for most bacteria governed by the DnaA protein, replication of bacterial chromosome is carried out by a multi-protein complex called the replisome, which is present in only few copies per cell. The proteins involved in DNA replication should provide an attractive target for antimicrobial inhibition and yet only antibiotics that indirectly target the replication process are in clinical use. These inhibit the type-II topoisomerases that relieve topological stress created by DNA unwinding and decatenate daughter chromosomes prior to cell division.
This Special Issue will summarize the current knowledge on bacterial DNA replication and its inhibition by antimicrobials. It is our pleasure to invite submissions of high quality primary research manuscripts and review articles addressing the molecular mechanisms of bacterial DNA replication, its regulation and inhibition by established drugs and novel inhibitors.
Prof. Dr. Anders Løbner-Olesen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bacterial chromosomes
- chromosome and plasmid replication
- replication control
- replication enzymes
- initiation, elongation and termination of replication
- replisome, function and processivity
- protein-protein interactions
- inhibition
- antimicrobials
- antibiotic resistance
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