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ArticleCell division2008

Preventing DNA over-replication: a Cdk perspective.

Andrew Cg Porter

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Article in Cell division, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew Cg PorterDepartment of Haematology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London W12 ONN, UK. andy.porter@imperial.ac.uk.
Imperial College London · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cell cycle is tightly controlled to ensure that replication origins fire only once per cycle and that consecutive S-phases are separated by mitosis. When controls fail, DNA over-replication ensues: individual origins fire more than once per S-phase (re-replication) or consecutive S-phases occur without intervening mitoses (endoreduplication). In yeast the cell cycle is controlled by a single cyclin dependent kinase (Cdk) that prevents origin licensing at times when it promotes origin firing, and that is inactivated, via proteolysis of its partner cyclin, as cells undergo mitosis. A quantitative model describes three levels of Cdk activity: low activity allows licensing, intermediate activity allows firing but prevents licensing, and high activity promotes mitosis. In higher eukaryotes the situation is complicated by the existence of additional proteins (geminin, Cul4-Ddb1Cdt2, and Emi1) that control licensing. A current challenge is to understand how these various control mechanisms are co-ordinated and why the degree of redundancy between them is so variable. Here the experimental induction of DNA over-replication is reviewed in the context of the quantitative model of Cdk action. Endoreduplication is viewed as a consequence of procedures that cause Cdk activity to fall below the threshold required to prevent licensing, and re-replication as the result of procedures that increase that threshold value. This may help to explain why over-replication does not necessarily require reduced Cdk activity and how different mechanisms conspire to prevent over-replication. Further work is nevertheless required to determine exactly how losing just one licensing control mechanism often causes over-replication, and why this varies between cell systems.

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PMID18211690
PMCPMC2245919
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