Chromosome Duplication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

SP Bell, K Labib - Genetics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The accurate and complete replication of genomic DNA is essential for all life. In eukaryotic
cells, the assembly of the multi-enzyme replisomes that perform replication is divided into …

Mechanisms and regulation of DNA replication initiation in eukaryotes

MW Parker, MR Botchan, JM Berger - Critical reviews in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Cellular DNA replication is initiated through the action of multiprotein complexes that
recognize replication start sites in the chromosome (termed origins) and facilitate duplex …

The mechanism of eukaryotic CMG helicase activation

ME Douglas, FA Ali, A Costa, JFX Diffley - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The initiation of eukaryotic DNA replication occurs in two discrete stages: first, the
minichromosome maintenance (MCM) complex assembles as a head-to-head double …

Structure of the eukaryotic MCM complex at 3.8 Å

N Li, Y Zhai, Y Zhang, W Li, M Yang, J Lei, BK Tye… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
DNA replication in eukaryotes is strictly regulated by several mechanisms. A central step in
this replication is the assembly of the heterohexameric minichromosome maintenance …

[HTML][HTML] Single-molecule studies of origin licensing reveal mechanisms ensuring bidirectional helicase loading

S Ticau, LJ Friedman, NA Ivica, J Gelles, SP Bell - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Loading of the ring-shaped Mcm2–7 replicative helicase around DNA licenses eukaryotic
origins of replication. During loading, Cdc6, Cdt1, and the origin-recognition complex (ORC) …

Structure of eukaryotic CMG helicase at a replication fork and implications to replisome architecture and origin initiation

R Georgescu, Z Yuan, L Bai… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The eukaryotic CMG (Cdc45, Mcm2–7, GINS) helicase consists of the Mcm2–7 hexameric
ring along with five accessory factors. The Mcm2–7 heterohexamer, like other hexameric …

MCM: one ring to rule them all

TD Deegan, JFX Diffley - Current opinion in structural biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•The eukaryotic MCM replicative helicase is tightly regulated during the cell
cycle.•Conformational changes in MCM underpin the different stages of chromosome …

The architecture of a eukaryotic replisome

J Sun, Y Shi, RE Georgescu, Z Yuan, BT Chait… - Nature structural & …, 2015 - nature.com
At the eukaryotic DNA replication fork, it is widely believed that the Cdc45–Mcm2–7–GINS
(CMG) helicase is positioned in front to unwind DNA and that DNA polymerases trail behind …

Structure of the eukaryotic replicative CMG helicase suggests a pumpjack motion for translocation

Z Yuan, L Bai, J Sun, R Georgescu, J Liu… - Nature structural & …, 2016 - nature.com
The CMG helicase is composed of Cdc45, Mcm2–7 and GINS. Here we report the structure
of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae CMG, determined by cryo-EM at a resolution of 3.7–4.8 Å …

Mcm10 regulates DNA replication elongation by stimulating the CMG replicative helicase

M Lõoke, MF Maloney, SP Bell - Genes & development, 2017 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Activation of the Mcm2–7 replicative DNA helicase is the committed step in eukaryotic DNA
replication initiation. Although Mcm2–7 activation requires binding of the helicase-activating …