DNA topoisomerases: Advances in understanding of cellular roles and multi‐protein complexes via structure‐function analysis

SJ McKie, KC Neuman, A Maxwell - Bioessays, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
DNA topoisomerases, capable of manipulating DNA topology, are ubiquitous and
indispensable for cellular survival due to the numerous roles they play during DNA …

All tangled up: how cells direct, manage and exploit topoisomerase function

SM Vos, EM Tretter, BH Schmidt… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2011 - nature.com
Topoisomerases are complex molecular machines that modulate DNA topology to maintain
chromosome superstructure and integrity. Although capable of stand-alone activity in vitro …

DNA topoisomerases: structure, function, and mechanism

JJ Champoux - Annual review of biochemistry, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract DNA topoisomerases solve the topological problems associated with DNA
replication, transcription, recombination, and chromatin remodeling by introducing …

Cellular roles of DNA topoisomerases: a molecular perspective

JC Wang - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2002 - nature.com
DNA topoisomerases are the magicians of the DNA world—by allowing DNA strands or
double helices to pass through each other, they can solve all of the topological problems of …

Mitosis-specific phosphorylation of histone H3 initiates primarily within pericentromeric heterochromatin during G2 and spreads in an ordered fashion coincident with …

MJ Hendzel, Y Wei, MA Mancini, A Van Hooser… - Chromosoma, 1997 - Springer
We have generated and characterized a novel site-specific antibody highly specific for the
phosphorylated form of the amino-terminus of histone H3 (Ser10). In this study, we used this …

DNA topoisomerase II and its growing repertoire of biological functions

JL Nitiss - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2009 - nature.com
DNA topoisomerases are enzymes that disentangle the topological problems that arise in
double-stranded DNA. Many of these can be solved by the generation of either single or …

Cell cycle-dependent control and roles of DNA topoisomerase II

JH Lee, JM Berger - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Type II topoisomerases are ubiquitous enzymes in all branches of life that can alter DNA
superhelicity and unlink double-stranded DNA segments during processes such as …

ZIP1 is a synaptonemal complex protein required for meiotic chromosome synapsis

M Sym, JA Engebrecht, GS Roeder - Cell, 1993 - cell.com
Z/PI is a novel meiosis-specific gene required forchromosome synapsis and cell cycle
progression in S. cerevidae. z/p7 strains undergo homologous chromosome pairing, but are …

Condensins, chromosome condensation protein complexes containing XCAP-C, XCAP-E and a Xenopus homolog of the Drosophila Barren protein

T Hirano, R Kobayashi, M Hirano - Cell, 1997 - cell.com
We report here purification and characterization of chro-mosome condensation protein
complexes (termed condensins) containing XCAP-C and XCAP-E, two Xenopus members of …

Topoisomerase IIα in chromosome instability and personalized cancer therapy

T Chen, Y Sun, P Ji, S Kopetz, W Zhang - Oncogene, 2015 - nature.com
Genome instability is a hallmark of cancer cells. Chromosome instability (CIN), which is often
mutually exclusive from hypermutation genotypes, represents a distinct subtype of genome …