Question: How do DNA sequences react in bacteria?
About the article "DNA", section "Sense and antisense".

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Most bacteria do not go through a well-defined cell cycle but instead continuously copy their DNA; during rapid growth, this can result in the concurrent occurrence of multiple rounds of replication.
In "E. coli", the best-characterized bacteria, DNA replication is regulated through several mechanisms, including: the hemimethylation and sequestering of the origin sequence, the ratio of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to adenosine diphosphate (ADP), and the levels of protein DnaA.
All these control the binding of initiator proteins to the origin sequences.
Because "E. coli" methylates GATC DNA sequences, DNA synthesis results in hemimethylated sequences.
This hemimethylated DNA is recognized by the protein SeqA, which binds and sequesters the origin sequence; in addition, DnaA (required for initiation of replication) binds less well to hemimethylated DNA.
As a result, newly replicated origins are prevented from immediately initiating another round of DNA replication.ATP builds up when the cell is in a rich medium, triggering DNA replication once the cell has reached a specific size.
ATP competes with ADP to bind to DnaA, and the DnaA-ATP complex is able to initiate replication.
A certain number of DnaA proteins are also required for DNA replication — each time the origin is copied, the number of binding sites for DnaA doubles, requiring the synthesis of more DnaA to enable another initiation of replication. 
A statistical distinction between coding and noncoding DNA sequences has been found.
It has been observed that nucleotides in non-coding DNA sequences display long range power law correlations while coding sequences do not. 
The episome that harbors the F factor can exist as an independent plasmid or integrate into the bacterial cell's genome.
There are several names for the possible states: Hfr bacteria possess the entire F episome integrated into the bacterial genome.
F+ bacteria possess F factor as a plasmid independent of the bacterial genome.
The F plasmid contains only F factor DNA and no DNA from the bacterial genome.
F' (F-prime) bacteria is formed by incorrect excision from the chromosome, resulting in an F plasmid carrying bacterial sequences that were next to where the F episome was inserted.
F- bacteria do not contain F factor.
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Uptake signal sequence (USS) are short DNA sequences preferentially taken up by competent bacteria belonging to the Pasteurellacea family ("e.g.
", "Haemophilus influenzae").
Similar sequences, called DNA uptake sequence (DUS), are found in species belonging to the Neisseriaceae family (including "Neisseria meningitidis" and "Neisseria gonorrhoeae"). 
Plasmids are double-stranded generally circular DNA sequences that are capable of automatically replicating in a host cell.
Plasmid vectors minimalistically consist of an origin of replication that allows for semi-independent replication of the plasmid in the host and also the transgene insert.
Modern plasmids generally have many more features, notably including a "multiple cloning site" which includes nucleotide overhangs for insertion of an insert, and multiple restriction enzyme consensus sites to either side of the insert.
In the case of plasmids utilized as transcription vectors, incubating bacteria with plasmids generates hundreds or thousands of copies of the vector within the bacteria in hours, and the vectors can be extracted from the bacteria, and the multiple cloning site can be cut by restriction enzymes to excise the hundredfold or thousandfold amplified insert.
These plasmid transcription vectors characteristically lack crucial sequences that code for polyadenylation sequences and translation termination sequences in translated mRNAs, making protein expression from transcription vectors impossible.
Plasmids may be conjugative/transmissible and non-conjugative:  conjugative: mediate DNA transfer through conjugation and therefore spread rapidly among the bacterial cells of a population; e.g., F plasmid, many R and some col plasmids.
nonconjugative- do not mediate DNA through conjugation, e.g., many R and col plasmids.