Evidence map›Paper›PMID 26102578›Full record

ReviewViruses2015

Coordinated DNA Replication by the Bacteriophage T4 Replisome.

Erin Noble, Michelle M Spiering, Stephen J Benkovic

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Viruses, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Introduction.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
    Article
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Review
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. A mechanistic study of helicases with magnetic traps.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2017
    Review
  12. Article
  13. Article
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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Erin NoblePennsylvania State University, Department of Chemistry, 414 Wartik Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA. eun2@psu.edu.
Michelle M SpieringPennsylvania State University, Department of Chemistry, 414 Wartik Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA. mms36@psu.edu.
Stephen J BenkovicPennsylvania State University, Department of Chemistry, 414 Wartik Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA. sjb1@psu.edu.
Pennsylvania State University · US

Funding

PHOSPHATE ACTIVATION MECHANISMSR01GM013306 · NIGMS · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-UNIV PARK · PI BENKOVIC, STEPHEN J · 1985 to 2022
$10.0M
Effect of PCNA on human DNA Polϵ and coordination of translesion synthesisF32GM110857 · NIGMS · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI NOBLE, ERIN R. · 2015 to 2015
$35k
NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM110857NIGMS NIH HHS F32GM110857NIGMS NIH HHS GM013306NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM013306
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The T4 bacteriophage encodes eight proteins, which are sufficient to carry out coordinated leading and lagging strand DNA synthesis. These purified proteins have been used to reconstitute DNA synthesis in vitro and are a well-characterized model system. Recent work on the T4 replisome has yielded more detailed insight into the dynamics and coordination of proteins at the replication fork. Since the leading and lagging strands are synthesized in opposite directions, coordination of DNA synthesis as well as priming and unwinding is accomplished by several protein complexes. These protein complexes serve to link catalytic activities and physically tether proteins to the replication fork. Essential to both leading and lagging strand synthesis is the formation of a holoenzyme complex composed of the polymerase and a processivity clamp. The two holoenzymes form a dimer allowing the lagging strand polymerase to be retained within the replisome after completion of each Okazaki fragment. The helicase and primase also form a complex known as the primosome, which unwinds the duplex DNA while also synthesizing primers on the lagging strand. Future studies will likely focus on defining the orientations and architecture of protein complexes at the replication fork.

Indexed as

DNA ReplicationBacteriophage T4DNA, ViralMultienzyme ComplexesViral ProteinsDNA, ViralMultienzyme ComplexesViral ProteinsDNA replicationreplisomeT4 bacteriophage

Identifiers

PMID26102578
PMCPMC4488733
OpenAlexW1491212348

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.