The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been the principal organism used in
experiments to examine genetic recombination in eukaryotes. Studies over the past decade …

Organic chemists tend to consider the conformation of compounds as a consequence of
repulsive steric interactions. In other words,“the steric effect” means “repulsive” in many …

This is a sequel to the previous Perspective “The CH–π hydrogen bond in chemistry.
Conformation, supramolecules, optical resolution and interactions involving carbohydrates” …

This treatise is an update to a preceding highlight (CH/π hydrogen bonds in crystals)
published in this journal 5 years ago (M. Nishio, CrystEngComm, 2004, 6, 130–156). After …

The RecA protein is a recombinase functioning in recombinational DNA repair in bacteria.
RecA is regulated at many levels. The expression of the recA gene is regulated within the …

The recombinases of the RecA family are often viewed only as DNA-pairing proteins—they
bind to one DNA segment, align it with homologous sequences in another DNA segment …

To clarify RAD51 interactions controlling homologous recombination, we report here the
crystal structure of the full‐length RAD51 homolog from Pyrococcus furiosus. The structure …

Many replication initiators form higher-order oligomers that process host replication origins
to promote replisome formation. In addition to dedicated duplex-DNA-binding domains …

Homologous recombination (HR) uses a homologous template to accurately repair DNA
double-strand breaks and stalled replication forks to maintain genome stability. During …

DNA is subjected to many endogenous and exogenous damages. All organisms have
developed a complex network of DNA repair mechanisms. A variety of different DNA repair …