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ReviewCellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS2014

Replication initiation and genome instability: a crossroads for DNA and RNA synthesis.

Jacqueline H Barlow, André Nussenzweig

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In one paragraph

Review in Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. TIMELESS as a prognostic biomarker and therapeutic target in gastric cancer.Journal, genetic engineering & biotechnology · 2025
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  8. Origins of DNA replication.PLoS genetics · 2019
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  12. The Role of DNA Polymerase β in Neural Genome Stability.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jacqueline H BarlowLaboratory of Genome Integrity, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA, barlowjh@mail.nih.gov.
André Nussenzweig
National Human Genome Research Institute · US

Funding

DNA RepairZIABC010283 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI NUSSENZWEIG, ANDRE A. · 2009 to 2025
$27.0M
Relationship between DNA damage detection and signalingZIABC010959 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI NUSSENZWEIG, ANDRE A. · 2009 to 2025
$27.0M
DNA REPAIRZ01BC010283 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI NUSSENZWEIG, ANDRE A. · 1998 to 2008
$2.9M
Relationship between DNA damage detection and signalingZ01BC010959 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI NUSSENZWEIG, ANDRE A. · 2008 to 2008
$812k
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 BC010283Intramural NIH HHS Z01 BC010959
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nuclear DNA replication requires the concerted action of hundreds of proteins to efficiently unwind and duplicate the entire genome while also retaining epigenetic regulatory information. Initiation of DNA replication is tightly regulated, rapidly firing thousands of origins once the conditions to promote rapid and faithful replication are in place, and defects in replication initiation lead to proliferation defects, genome instability, and a range of developmental abnormalities. Interestingly, DNA replication in metazoans initiates in actively transcribed DNA, meaning that replication initiation occurs in DNA that is co-occupied with tens of thousands of poised and active RNA polymerase complexes. Active transcription can induce genome instability, particularly during DNA replication, as RNA polymerases can induce torsional stress, formation of secondary structures, and act as a physical barrier to other enzymes involved in DNA metabolism. Here we discuss the challenges facing mammalian DNA replication, their impact on genome instability, and the development of cancer.

Indexed as

DNA ReplicationGenomic InstabilityReplication OriginTranscription, GeneticAnimalsDNAHumansNeoplasmsRNADNARNA

Identifiers

PMID25238783
PMCPMC6289259
OpenAlexW1976411220

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Registered trials

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