The initiation of eukaryotic DNA replication

A Costa, JFX Diffley - Annual review of biochemistry, 2022 - annualreviews.org
DNA replication in eukaryotic cells initiates from large numbers of sites called replication
origins. Initiation of replication from these origins must be tightly controlled to ensure the …

Origins of DNA replication in eukaryotes

Y Hu, B Stillman - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Errors occurring during DNA replication can result in inaccurate replication, incomplete
replication, or re-replication, resulting in genome instability that can lead to diseases such as …

Mechanisms of chromatin-based epigenetic inheritance

W Du, G Shi, CM Shan, Z Li, B Zhu, S Jia, Q Li… - Science China Life …, 2022 - Springer
Multi-cellular organisms such as humans contain hundreds of cell types that share the same
genetic information (DNA sequences), and yet have different cellular traits and functions …

MAVE-NN: learning genotype-phenotype maps from multiplex assays of variant effect

A Tareen, M Kooshkbaghi, A Posfai, WT Ireland… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Multiplex assays of variant effect (MAVEs) are a family of methods that includes deep
mutational scanning experiments on proteins and massively parallel reporter assays on …

The structure of ORC–Cdc6 on an origin DNA reveals the mechanism of ORC activation by the replication initiator Cdc6

X Feng, Y Noguchi, M Barbon, B Stillman… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Origin Recognition Complex (ORC) binds to sites in chromosomes to specify
the location of origins of DNA replication. The S. cerevisiae ORC binds to specific DNA …

[HTML][HTML] Mobile origin-licensing factors confer resistance to conflicts with RNA polymerase

MJ Scherr, S Abd Wahab, D Remus, KE Duderstadt - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Fundamental to our understanding of chromosome duplication is the idea that replication
origins function both as sites where MCM helicases are loaded during the G1 phase and …

Nucleosome-directed replication origin licensing independent of a consensus DNA sequence

S Li, MR Wasserman, O Yurieva, L Bai… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The numerous enzymes and cofactors involved in eukaryotic DNA replication are conserved
from yeast to human, and the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Sc) has been a …

The dynamic nature of the human origin recognition complex revealed through five cryoEM structures

MJ Jaremko, KF On, DR Thomas, B Stillman… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Genome replication is initiated from specific origin sites established by dynamic events. The
Origin Recognition Complex (ORC) is necessary for orchestrating the initiation process by …

The human origin recognition complex is essential for pre-RC assembly, mitosis, and maintenance of nuclear structure

HC Chou, K Bhalla, OEL Demerdesh, O Klingbeil… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The origin recognition complex (ORC) cooperates with CDC6, MCM2-7, and CDT1 to form
pre-RC complexes at origins of DNA replication. Here, using tiling-sgRNA CRISPR screens …

Transcriptional activity of the bacterial replication initiator DnaA

IP Menikpurage, K Woo, PE Mera - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In bacteria, DnaA is the most conserved DNA replication initiator protein. DnaA is a DNA
binding protein that is part of the AAA+ ATPase family. In addition to initiating chromosome …