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ReviewDNA repair2019

The MCM8/9 complex: A recent recruit to the roster of helicases involved in genome maintenance.

Wezley C Griffin, Michael A Trakselis

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In one paragraph

Review in DNA repair, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
41citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

41 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Structural Activation of DNA Unwinding by MCM8/9/HROB.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  3. MCM8-9 helicase activity protects primordial germ cell development to prevent premature ovarian insufficiency.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. Mechanisms of human germ cell development.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2026
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  12. MCM9 compound heterozygosity in an adolescent with premature ovarian insufficiency.Endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism case reports · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wezley C GriffinDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 76798, USA.
Michael A TrakselisDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 76798, USA. Electronic address: michael_trakselis@baylor.edu.
Baylor University · US

Funding

Unravelling a specific role for MCM8/9 in fork remodelingR15GM135791 · NIGMS · BAYLOR UNIVERSITY · PI TRAKSELIS, MICHAEL A · 2019 to 2019
$416k
NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM135791
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are several DNA helicases involved in seemingly overlapping aspects of homologous and homoeologous recombination. Mutations of many of these helicases are directly implicated in genetic diseases including cancer, rapid aging, and infertility. MCM8/9 are recent additions to the catalog of helicases involved in recombination, and so far, the evidence is sparse, making assignment of function difficult. Mutations in MCM8/9 correlate principally with primary ovarian failure/insufficiency (POF/POI) and infertility indicating a meiotic defect. However, they also act when replication forks collapse/break shuttling products into mitotic recombination and several mutations are found in various somatic cancers. This review puts MCM8/9 in context with other replication and recombination helicases to narrow down its genomic maintenance role. We discuss the known structure/function relationship, the mutational spectrum, and dissect the available cellular and organismal data to better define its role in recombination.

Indexed as

AnimalsDNA ReplicationGenomeHumansInfertilityMeiosisMinichromosome Maintenance ProteinsRecombination, GeneticMinichromosome Maintenance ProteinsCancerDNA repairDNA replicationHelicaseHomologous recombinationInfertilityMCM8MCM9

Identifiers

PMID30743181
PMCPMC9202240
OpenAlexW2912383101

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