Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27898391›Full record

ReviewGenes & development2016

Replication fork instability and the consequences of fork collisions from rereplication.

Jessica L Alexander, Terry L Orr-Weaver

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Review in Genes & development, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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67citing papers in PubMed
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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jessica L AlexanderWhitehead Institute, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.
Terry L Orr-WeaverWhitehead Institute, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.

Funding

REGULATION OF THE ENDO CELL CYCLE IN DROSOPHILAR01GM057960 · NIGMS · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI ORR-WEAVER, TERRY L. · 1999 to 2015
$5.3M
Producing, provisioning, and protecting the egg: Regulation of DNA replication, mRNA translation, and proteolysis for the transition from oocyte to embryoR35GM118098 · NIGMS · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI ORR-WEAVER, TERRY L. · 2016 to 2018
$2.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM057960NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118098
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Replication forks encounter obstacles that must be repaired or bypassed to complete chromosome duplication before cell division. Proteomic analysis of replication forks suggests that the checkpoint and repair machinery travels with unperturbed forks, implying that they are poised to respond to stalling and collapse. However, impaired fork progression still generates aberrations, including repeat copy number instability and chromosome rearrangements. Deregulated origin firing also causes fork instability if a newer fork collides with an older one, generating double-strand breaks (DSBs) and partially rereplicated DNA. Current evidence suggests that multiple mechanisms are used to repair rereplication damage, yet these can have deleterious consequences for genome integrity.

Indexed as

DNA ReplicationDNA Breaks, Double-StrandedDNA RepairEukaryotaGenomic InstabilityReplication Originbreak-induced replicationdouble-strand break repairgene amplificationhomologous recombinationnonhomologous end-joining

Identifiers

PMID27898391
PMCPMC5110991

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