Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Genome-wide mapping of individual replication fork velocities using nanopore sequencing

  • Bertrand Theulot,
  • Laurent Lacroix,
  • Jean-Michel Arbona,
  • Gael A. Millot,
  • Etienne Jean,
  • Corinne Cruaud,
  • Jade Pellet,
  • Florence Proux,
  • Magali Hennion,
  • Stefan Engelen,
  • Arnaud Lemainque,
  • Benjamin Audit,
  • Olivier Hyrien,
  • Benoît Le Tallec

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31012-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Theulot et al. introduce NanoForkSpeed, a nanopore sequencing-based method to map individual replication fork velocities on entire genomes. NFS shows that fork speed is uniform across yeast chromosomes except for a marked slowdown at pausing sites.