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ArticleNucleic acids research2011

High-resolution analysis of four efficient yeast replication origins reveals new insights into the ORC and putative MCM binding elements.

Fujung Chang, Caitlin D May, Timothy Hoggard, Jeremy Miller, Catherine A Fox, Michael Weinreich

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. An Orc6 tether mediates ORC binding-site switching during replication origin licensing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  4. Compact Origins and Where to Find Them: ORC's Guide to Genome-Wide Licensing.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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  5. DNA bending mediated by ORC is essential for replication licensing in budding yeast.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  7. Changing protein-DNA interactions promote ORC binding-site exchange during replication origin licensing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Fujung ChangLaboratory of Chromosome Replication, Van Andel Research Institute, 333 Bostwick Ave NE Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA.
Caitlin D May
Timothy Hoggard
Jeremy Miller
Catherine A Fox
Michael Weinreich
University of Wisconsin–Madison · USVan Andel Institute · US

Funding

Origin Recognition Complex at Transcriptional SilencersR01GM056890 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI FOX, CATHERINE A · 1998 to 2020
$6.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM56890
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In budding yeast, the eukaryotic initiator protein ORC (origin recognition complex) binds to a bipartite sequence consisting of an 11 bp ACS element and an adjacent B1 element. However, the genome contains many more matches to this consensus than actually bind ORC or function as origins in vivo. Although ORC-dependent loading of the replicative MCM helicase at origins is enhanced by a distal B2 element, less is known about this element. Here, we analyzed four highly active origins (ARS309, ARS319, ARS606 and ARS607) by linker scanning mutagenesis and found that sequences adjacent to the ACS contributed substantially to origin activity and ORC binding. Using the sequences of four additional B2 elements we generated a B2 multiple sequence alignment and identified a shared, degenerate 8 bp sequence that was enriched within 228 known origins. In addition, our high-resolution analysis revealed that not all origins exist within nucleosome free regions: a class of Sir2-regulated origins has a stably positioned nucleosome overlapping or near B2. This study illustrates the conserved yet flexible nature of yeast origin architecture to promote ORC binding and origin activity, and helps explain why a strong match to the ORC binding site is insufficient to identify origins within the genome.

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Replication OriginBase SequenceBinding SitesConsensus SequenceDNA HelicasesMolecular Sequence DataNucleosomesOrigin Recognition ComplexSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsSequence AlignmentDNA HelicasesNucleosomesOrigin Recognition ComplexSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

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PMID21558171
PMCPMC3159467
OpenAlexW2066971137

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