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ReviewCurrent opinion in genetics & development2021

Recombination and restart at blocked replication forks.

Ralph Scully, Rajula Elango, Arvind Panday, Nicholas A Willis

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Review in Current opinion in genetics & development, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 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

4 authors.

Ralph ScullyDepartment of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology and Cancer Research Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Electronic address: rscully@bidmc.harvard.edu.
Rajula ElangoDepartment of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology and Cancer Research Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Arvind PandayDepartment of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology and Cancer Research Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Nicholas A WillisDepartment of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology and Cancer Research Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.

Funding

ANALYSIS OF BRCA1 RECOMBINATION FUNCTIONSR01CA095175 · NCI · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI SCULLY, RALPH · 2002 to 2021
$4.9M
FANCM in repair of stalled replication forksR01CA217991 · NCI · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI SCULLY, RALPH · 2017 to 2021
$2.0M
Regulation of stalled fork repair in mammalian cellsR01GM134425 · NIGMS · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI SCULLY, RALPH · 2019 to 2022
$1.4M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA095175NCI NIH HHS R01 CA217991NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM134425
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Replication fork stalling occurs when the replisome encounters a barrier to normal fork progression. Replisome stalling events are common during scheduled DNA synthesis, but vary in their severity. At one extreme, a lesion may induce only temporary pausing of a DNA polymerase; at the other, it may present a near-absolute barrier to the replicative helicase and effectively block fork progression. Many alternative pathways have evolved to respond to these different types of replication stress. Among these, the homologous recombination (HR) pathway plays an important role, protecting the stalled fork and processing it for repair. Here, we review recent advances in our understanding of how blocked replication forks in vertebrate cells can be processed for recombination and for replication restart.

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DNA HelicasesDNA ReplicationChromosomesDNA Helicases

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PMID34464818
PMCPMC9006750

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