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ReviewChromosoma2015

Switch on the engine: how the eukaryotic replicative helicase MCM2-7 becomes activated.

Silvia Tognetti, Alberto Riera, Christian Speck

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Review in Chromosoma, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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

35 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. RSC advances · 2022
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  10. Origins of DNA replication.PLoS genetics · 2019
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  12. MPF-based meiotic cell cycle control: Half a century of lessons from starfish oocytes.Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and biological sciences · 2018
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  13. Cryo-EM structure of Mcm2-7 double hexamer on DNA suggests a lagging-strand DNA extrusion model.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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  20. Cryo-EM of dynamic protein complexes in eukaryotic DNA replication.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Silvia TognettiDNA Replication Group, Institute of Clinical Science, Imperial College, London, W12 0NN, UK.
Alberto Riera
Christian Speck
Imperial College London · GBImperial Valley College · US

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U120085811
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A crucial step during eukaryotic initiation of DNA replication is the correct loading and activation of the replicative DNA helicase, which ensures that each replication origin fires only once. Unregulated DNA helicase loading and activation, as it occurs in cancer, can cause severe DNA damage and genomic instability. The essential mini-chromosome maintenance proteins 2-7 (MCM2-7) represent the core of the eukaryotic replicative helicase that is loaded at DNA replication origins during G1-phase of the cell cycle. The MCM2-7 helicase activity, however, is only triggered during S-phase once the holo-helicase Cdc45-MCM2-7-GINS (CMG) has been formed. A large number of factors and several kinases interact and contribute to CMG formation and helicase activation, though the exact mechanisms remain unclear. Crucially, upon DNA damage, this reaction is temporarily halted to ensure genome integrity. Here, we review the current understanding of helicase activation; we focus on protein interactions during CMG formation, discuss structural changes during helicase activation, and outline similarities and differences of the prokaryotic and eukaryotic helicase activation process.

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Cell CycleEnzyme ActivationEukaryotaHumansMinichromosome Maintenance ProteinsReplication OriginMinichromosome Maintenance Proteins

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PMID25308420
OpenAlexW1991334588

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