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ArticleNucleic acids research2015

MCM ring hexamerization is a prerequisite for DNA-binding.

Clifford A Froelich, Amanda Nourse, Eric J Enemark

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. MCM5 Aggravates the HDAC1-Mediated Malignant Progression of Lung Cancer.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Clifford A FroelichDepartment of Structural Biology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Mail Stop 311, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Amanda NourseMolecular Interaction Analysis Shared Resource, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Mail Stop 311, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Eric J EnemarkDepartment of Structural Biology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Mail Stop 311, Memphis, TN 38105, USA eric.enemark@stjude.org.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · US

Funding

Viral Vector Technology (VVTSR)P30CA021765 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI CHARLES ROBERTS · 1985 to 2026
$166.9M
Molecular mechanisms of DNA replicationR01GM098771 · NIGMS · UNIV OF ARKANSAS FOR MED SCIS · PI ENEMARK, ERIC · 2011 to 2019
$3.1M
NCI NIH HHS 5 P30 CA021765NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM098771
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The hexameric Minichromosome Maintenance (MCM) protein complex forms a ring that unwinds DNA at the replication fork in eukaryotes and archaea. Our recent crystal structure of an archaeal MCM N-terminal domain bound to single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) revealed ssDNA associating across tight subunit interfaces but not at the loose interfaces, indicating that DNA-binding is governed not only by the DNA-binding residues of the subunits (MCM ssDNA-binding motif, MSSB) but also by the relative orientation of the subunits. We now extend these findings by showing that DNA-binding by the MCM N-terminal domain of the archaeal organism Pyrococcus furiosus occurs specifically in the hexameric oligomeric form. We show that mutants defective for hexamerization are defective in binding ssDNA despite retaining all the residues observed to interact with ssDNA in the crystal structure. One mutation that exhibits severely defective hexamerization and ssDNA-binding is at a conserved phenylalanine that aligns with the mouse Mcm4(Chaos3) mutation associated with chromosomal instability, cancer, and decreased intersubunit association.

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AnimalsArchaeal ProteinsDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA, Single-StrandedMiceMinichromosome Maintenance Complex Component 4Minichromosome Maintenance ProteinsModels, MolecularMutationProtein BindingProtein MultimerizationPyrococcus furiosusArchaeal ProteinsDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA, Single-StrandedMcm4 protein, mouseMinichromosome Maintenance Complex Component 4Minichromosome Maintenance Proteins

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PMID26365238
PMCPMC4627082
OpenAlexW1465921783

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