ReviewFrontiers in molecular biosciences2018
The Human Replicative Helicase, the CMG Complex, as a Target for Anti-cancer Therapy.
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- Increased replication-associated single-stranded DNA promotes formaldehyde-induced mutagenesis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- MCM5 UFMylation regulates replication origin firing and fork progression.The EMBO journal · 2025Article
- RNA-DNA Differences: Mechanisms, Oxidative Stress, Transcriptional Fidelity, and Health Implications.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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- Transcriptomic Profiling Reveals Altered Expression of Genes Involved in Metabolic and Immune Processes in NDV-Infected Chicken Embryos.Metabolites · 2024Article
- Replication Stress in Activated Human NK Cells Induces Sensitivity to Apoptosis.Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) · 2024Article
- Unwinding Helicase MCM Functionality for Diagnosis and Therapeutics of Replication Abnormalities Associated with Cancer: A Review.Molecular diagnosis & therapy · 2024Review
- Mutant p53 gains oncogenic functions through a chromosomal instability-induced cytosolic DNA response.Nature communications · 2024Article
- IGF2BP2 promotes glycolysis and hepatocellular carcinoma stemness by stabilizing CDC45 mRNA via m6A modification.Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) · 2023Article
- ZFP36 loss-mediated BARX1 stabilization promotes malignant phenotypes by transactivating master oncogenes in NSCLC.Cell death & disease · 2023Article
- Unwinding the Role of the CMG Helicase in Inborn Errors of Immunity.Journal of clinical immunology · 2023Article
- Inhibition of Replication Fork Formation and Progression: Targeting the Replication Initiation and Primosomal Proteins.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- GINS4 suppresses ferroptosis by antagonizing p53 acetylation with Snail.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Reducing MYC's transcriptional footprint unveils a good prognostic gene signature in melanoma.Genes & development · 2023Article
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- Identification of novel key genes associated with uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma progression and prognosis.Annals of translational medicine · 2023Article
- MCM10 expression is linked to cervical cancer aggressiveness.Frontiers in molecular medicine · 2023Article
- Novel protein contact points among TP53 and minichromosome maintenance complex proteins 2, 3, and 5.Cancer medicine · 2022Article
- MCM2 in human cancer: functions, mechanisms, and clinical significance.Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2022Review
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Abstract
DNA helicases unwind or rearrange duplex DNA during replication, recombination and repair. Helicases of many pathogenic organisms such as viruses, bacteria, and protozoa have been studied as potential therapeutic targets to treat infectious diseases, and human DNA helicases as potential targets for anti-cancer therapy. DNA replication machineries perform essential tasks duplicating genome in every cell cycle, and one of the important functions of these machineries are played by DNA helicases. Replicative helicases are usually multi-subunit protein complexes, and the minimal complex active as eukaryotic replicative helicase is composed of 11 subunits, requiring a functional assembly of two subcomplexes and one protein. The hetero-hexameric MCM2-7 helicase is activated by forming a complex with Cdc45 and the hetero-tetrameric GINS complex; the Cdc45-Mcm2-7-GINS (CMG) complex. The CMG complex can be a potential target for a treatment of cancer and the feasibility of this replicative helicase as a therapeutic target has been tested recently. Several different strategies have been implemented and are under active investigations to interfere with helicase activity of the CMG complex. This review focuses on the molecular function of the CMG helicase during DNA replication and its relevance to cancers based on data published in the literature. In addition, current efforts made to identify small molecules inhibiting the CMG helicase to develop anti-cancer therapeutic strategies were summarized, with new perspectives to advance the discovery of the CMG-targeting drugs.
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