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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2013

DNA replication origins.

Alan C Leonard, Marcel Méchali

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 139 papers.

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139citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

139 citing papers in PubMed, 241 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. 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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  12. How bacteria initiate DNA replication comes into focus.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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79 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Alan C LeonardDepartment of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida 32901.
Marcel Méchali
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRFlorida Institute of Technology · US

Funding

CELL CYCLE ASSEMBLY OF NUCLEOPROTEIN COMPLEXESR01GM054042 · NIGMS · FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LEONARD, ALAN CARL · 1997 to 2013
$2.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM054042NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM054042
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The onset of genomic DNA synthesis requires precise interactions of specialized initiator proteins with DNA at sites where the replication machinery can be loaded. These sites, defined as replication origins, are found at a few unique locations in all of the prokaryotic chromosomes examined so far. However, replication origins are dispersed among tens of thousands of loci in metazoan chromosomes, thereby raising questions regarding the role of specific nucleotide sequences and chromatin environment in origin selection and the mechanisms used by initiators to recognize replication origins. Close examination of bacterial and archaeal replication origins reveals an array of DNA sequence motifs that position individual initiator protein molecules and promote initiator oligomerization on origin DNA. Conversely, the need for specific recognition sequences in eukaryotic replication origins is relaxed. In fact, the primary rule for origin selection appears to be flexibility, a feature that is modulated either by structural elements or by epigenetic mechanisms at least partly linked to the organization of the genome for gene expression.

Indexed as

Models, GeneticReplication OriginAnimalsArchaeaBacteriaBinding SitesChromatinDNA ReplicationDrosophilaOrigin Recognition ComplexSaccharomyces cerevisiaeYeastsChromatinOrigin Recognition Complex

Identifiers

PMID23838439
PMCPMC3783049
OpenAlexW2149359491

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