Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29462789›Full record

ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2018

Positioning the 5'-flap junction in the active site controls the rate of flap endonuclease-1-catalyzed DNA cleavage.

Bo Song, Samir M Hamdan, Manju M Hingorani

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 33% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Bo SongDepartment of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut 06459.
Samir M HamdanDivision of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia.
Manju M HingoraniDepartment of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut 06459. Electronic address: mhingorani@wesleyan.edu.
Wesleyan University · USKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology · SA

Funding

Investigation of defective allosteric signaling as a basis for DNA mismatch repair malfunction in Lynch cancer syndromeR15GM114743 · NIGMS · WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY · PI HINGORANI, MANJU M · 2015 to 2015
$409k
NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM114743
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flap endonucleases catalyze cleavage of single-stranded DNA flaps formed during replication, repair, and recombination and are therefore essential for genome processing and stability. Recent crystal structures of DNA-bound human flap endonuclease (hFEN1) offer new insights into how conformational changes in the DNA and hFEN1 may facilitate the reaction mechanism. For example, previous biochemical studies of DNA conformation performed under non-catalytic conditions with Ca

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CalciumCatalysisCatalytic DomainDNAFlap EndonucleasesHumansMagnesiumCalciumDNAFEN1 protein, humanFlap EndonucleasesMagnesiumDNA endonucleaseDNA recombinationDNA repairDNA replicationflap endonucleasefluorescencepre-steady-state kinetics

Identifiers

PMID29462789
PMCPMC5880123
OpenAlexW2786922580

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