[HTML][HTML] Assembly, Activation, and Helicase Actions of MCM2-7: Transition from Inactive MCM2-7 Double Hexamers to Active Replication Forks

Z You, H Masai - Biology, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary MCM2-7, evolutionarily conserved and essential for DNA replication,
functions as the central factor for the eukaryotic replicative DNA helicase. Here, we …

Single-molecule imaging reveals the mechanism of bidirectional replication initiation in metazoa

R Terui, SE Berger, LA Sambel, D Song, G Chistol - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Metazoan genomes are copied bidirectionally from thousands of replication origins.
Replication initiation entails the assembly and activation of two CMG helicases (Cdc45⋅ …

Dual DNA replication modes: varying fork speeds and initiation rates within the spatial replication program in Xenopus

D Ciardo, O Haccard, F De Carli, O Hyrien… - Nucleic Acids …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Large vertebrate genomes duplicate by activating tens of thousands of DNA replication
origins, irregularly spaced along the genome. The spatial and temporal regulation of the …

The balance between ATR and DDK activities controls TopBP1-mediated locking of dormant origins at the pre-IC stage

S Koundrioukoff, SJ Kim, N Alary, A Toffano… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Replication stress, a major hallmark of cancers, and ensuing genome instability source from
impaired progression of replication forks. The first line of defense against fork slowing is …

ATR and TopBP1 oppose to control dormant origin building, providing a first defence against replication stress

M Debatisse, S Koundrioukoff, S Kim, N Alary… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Replication stress, a major hallmark of cancers, sources from replication fork slowing or
blocking. In response, activation of extra-origins, otherwise dormant, supports the replication …

[PDF][PDF] Machine Learning Discoveries of GINS1-X Synergy in ETC-1922159 Treated Colorectal Cancer Cells

S Sinha - 2025 - preprints.org
GINS1 (PSF1 homolog) forms a part of complex called GINS, named after numbers 5-1-2-3
(go-ichi-ni-san in Japanese) apropos the 4 protein subunits of the complex, namely, SLD5 …

DONSON: A novel metazoan DNA replication initiation factor

Y Lim - 2024 - dash.harvard.edu
Faithful and timely duplication of the genome is required for genetic information to be
inherited during cell division, and deregulation of genome duplication causes cancer and …