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ReviewAnnual review of genetics2015

Eukaryotic Mismatch Repair in Relation to DNA Replication.

Thomas A Kunkel, Dorothy A Erie

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Review in Annual review of genetics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 247 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
247citing papers in PubMed
16.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

247 citing papers in PubMed, 420 citations in OpenAlex.

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187 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Thomas A KunkelGenome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709; email: kunkel@niehs.nih.gov.
Dorothy A ErieDepartment of Chemistry and Curriculum in Applied Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290; email: derie@email.unc.edu.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Structure-Function Studies Of DNA Replication FidelityZIAES065070 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI KUNKEL, THOMAS A · 2009 to 2025
$30.6M
Studies Of DNA Mismatch RepairZIAES065089 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI KUNKEL, THOMAS A · 2009 to 2025
$17.8M
Structure-Function Studies Of DNA Replication FidelityZ01ES065070 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI KUNKEL, THOMAS A · 1991 to 2008
$4.3M
Structure Function Studies of DNA Mismatch RepairR01GM079480 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ERIE, DOROTHY A · 2007 to 2017
$2.7M
STUDIES OF DNA MISMATCH REPAIRZ01ES065089 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI KUNKEL, THOMAS A · 1997 to 2008
$1.3M
Quantitative analysis of transient DNA repair processes in vivoR01GM109832 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BRUSTAD, ERIC MICHAEL, ERIE, DOROTHY A · 2014 to 2017
$1.0M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 ES065070Intramural NIH HHS Z01 ES065089NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM079480NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM109832
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Three processes act in series to accurately replicate the eukaryotic nuclear genome. The major replicative DNA polymerases strongly prevent mismatch formation, occasional mismatches that do form are proofread during replication, and rare mismatches that escape proofreading are corrected by mismatch repair (MMR). This review focuses on MMR in light of increasing knowledge about nuclear DNA replication enzymology and the rate and specificity with which mismatches are generated during leading- and lagging-strand replication. We consider differences in MMR efficiency in relation to mismatch recognition, signaling to direct MMR to the nascent strand, mismatch removal, and the timing of MMR. These studies are refining our understanding of relationships between generating and repairing replication errors to achieve accurate replication of both DNA strands of the nuclear genome.

Indexed as

DNADNA DamageDNA Mismatch RepairDNA ReplicationEscherichia coliGenomic InstabilityHumansSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsDNASaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsDNA mismatch repairgenome instabilitymutation ratemutatorreplication fidelity

Identifiers

PMID26436461
PMCPMC5439269
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