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ArticleEssays in biochemistry2021

Studying chromosome biology with single-molecule resolution in Xenopus laevis egg extracts.

George Cameron, Hasan Yardimci

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Article in Essays in biochemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 42% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Xenopus laevis Egg Extracts.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
    Article
  2. Article
  3. Biochemistry: one molecule at a time.Essays in biochemistry · 2021
    Article
  4. Tools for Decoding Ubiquitin Signaling in DNA Repair.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021
    Review
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

George CameronSingle Molecule Imaging of Genome Duplication and Maintenance Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, United Kingdom.
Hasan YardimciSingle Molecule Imaging of Genome Duplication and Maintenance Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, United Kingdom.
The Francis Crick Institute · GB

Funding

Cancer Research UK FC001221Medical Research Council FC001221Wellcome Trust FC001221
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell-free extracts from Xenopus laevis eggs are a model system for studying chromosome biology. Xenopus egg extracts can be synchronised in different cell cycle stages, making them useful for studying DNA replication, DNA repair and chromosome organisation. Combining single-molecule approaches with egg extracts is an exciting development being used to reveal molecular mechanisms that are difficult to study using conventional approaches. Fluorescence-based single-molecule imaging of surface-tethered DNAs has been used to visualise labelled protein movements on stretched DNA, the dynamics of DNA-protein complexes and extract-dependent structural rearrangement of stained DNA. Force-based single-molecule techniques are an alternative approach to measure mechanics of DNA and proteins. In this essay, the details of these single-molecule techniques, and the insights into chromosome biology they provide, will be discussed.

Indexed as

DNA ReplicationOocytesAnimalsBiologyChromosomesXenopus laevisChromosome organisationDNA repairDNA replicationSingle-molecule techniquesXenopus laevis

Identifiers

PMID33438722
PMCPMC8056035
OpenAlexW3120966458

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