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 …

The plasticity of DNA replication forks in response to clinically relevant genotoxic stress

M Berti, D Cortez, M Lopes - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
Complete and accurate DNA replication requires the progression of replication forks through
DNA damage, actively transcribed regions, structured DNA and compact chromatin. Recent …

Fast and efficient DNA replication with purified human proteins

Y Baris, MRG Taylor, V Aria, JTP Yeeles - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Chromosome replication is performed by a complex and intricate ensemble of proteins
termed the replisome, where the DNA polymerases Polδ and Polε, DNA polymerase α …

The structural mechanism of dimeric DONSON in replicative helicase activation

MA Cvetkovic, P Passaretti, A Butryn… - Molecular Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The MCM motor of the replicative helicase is loaded onto origin DNA as an inactive double
hexamer before replication initiation. Recruitment of activators GINS and Cdc45 upon S …

Mechanism of replication origin melting nucleated by CMG helicase assembly

JS Lewis, MH Gross, J Sousa, SS Henrikus, JF Greiwe… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The activation of eukaryotic origins of replication occurs in temporally separated steps to
ensure that chromosomes are copied only once per cell cycle. First, the MCM helicase is …

Structure of a human replisome shows the organisation and interactions of a DNA replication machine

ML Jones, Y Baris, MRG Taylor, JTP Yeeles - The EMBO journal, 2021 - embopress.org
The human replisome is an elaborate arrangement of molecular machines responsible for
accurate chromosome replication. At its heart is the CDC45‐MCM‐GINS (CMG) helicase …

Cryo-EM structure of the fork protection complex bound to CMG at a replication fork

D Baretić, M Jenkyn-Bedford, V Aria, G Cannone… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
The eukaryotic replisome, organized around the Cdc45-MCM-GINS (CMG) helicase,
orchestrates chromosome replication. Multiple factors associate directly with CMG, including …

[HTML][HTML] A conserved mechanism for regulating replisome disassembly in eukaryotes

M Jenkyn-Bedford, ML Jones, Y Baris, KPM Labib… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Replisome disassembly is the final step of eukaryotic DNA replication and is triggered by
ubiquitylation of the CDC45–MCM–GINS (CMG) replicative helicase,–. Despite being driven …

Structure of the processive human Pol δ holoenzyme

C Lancey, M Tehseen, VS Raducanu, F Rashid… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
In eukaryotes, DNA polymerase δ (Pol δ) bound to the proliferating cell nuclear antigen
(PCNA) replicates the lagging strand and cooperates with flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1) to …

Single-molecule imaging reveals replication fork coupled formation of G-quadruplex structures hinders local replication stress signaling

WTC Lee, Y Yin, MJ Morten, P Tonzi, PP Gwo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Guanine-rich DNA sequences occur throughout the human genome and can transiently form
G-quadruplex (G4) structures that may obstruct DNA replication, leading to genomic …