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DNA replication: telling time with microarrays

Heather J McCune1 and Anne D Donaldson2 email

1Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

2Cancer Research UK Chromosome Replication Group, Division of Gene Regulation and Expression, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK

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Genome Biology 2003, 4:204doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-2-204

Published: 30 January 2003

Subject areas: Molecular biology, Cell biology, Genome studies

Abstract

A long-standing hypothesis about eukaryotic DNA replication is that the late-replicating regions are transcriptionally inert and that repressing transcription delays replication initiation. But do contrasting results from yeast and a recent study in Drosophila imply that replication timing and transcriptional activity are differentially regulated in yeast and higher eukaryotes?


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