ArticleNucleic acids research2024
Partial wrapping of single-stranded DNA by replication protein A and modulation through phosphorylation.
Article in Nucleic acids research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Review
- A Phosphorylation Switch Modulates Configurational Codes in the Oncofetal IGF2BP RNA Binding Paralogs.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Response Factor Correction for Quantitative Determination of HomooligomericJournal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry · 2026Article
- Delineation of a novel assembly intermediate in Rous sarcoma virus integration pathway.Nucleic acids research · 2026Article
- The expanding roles of homologous recombination proteins in genome stability.The EMBO journal · 2026Review
- Mechanisms of DNMT3A-3L-mediated de novo DNA methylation on chromatin.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2026Article
- Mechanism of RPA phosphocode priming and tuning by CDK1/WEE1 signaling circuit.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Mechanistic insights into direct DNA and RNA strand transfer and dynamic protein exchange of SSB and RPA.Nucleic acids research · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
- Update of
Authors and funding
14 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) intermediates which emerge during DNA metabolic processes are shielded by replication protein A (RPA). RPA binds to ssDNA and acts as a gatekeeper to direct the ssDNA towards downstream DNA metabolic pathways with exceptional specificity. Understanding the mechanistic basis for such RPA-dependent functional specificity requires knowledge of the structural conformation of ssDNA when RPA-bound. Previous studies suggested a stretching of ssDNA by RPA. However, structural investigations uncovered a partial wrapping of ssDNA around RPA. Therefore, to reconcile the models, in this study, we measured the end-to-end distances of free ssDNA and RPA-ssDNA complexes using single-molecule FRET and double electron-electron resonance (DEER) spectroscopy and found only a small systematic increase in the end-to-end distance of ssDNA upon RPA binding. This change does not align with a linear stretching model but rather supports partial wrapping of ssDNA around the contour of DNA binding domains of RPA. Furthermore, we reveal how phosphorylation at the key Ser-384 site in the RPA70 subunit provides access to the wrapped ssDNA by remodeling the DNA-binding domains. These findings establish a precise structural model for RPA-bound ssDNA, providing valuable insights into how RPA facilitates the remodeling of ssDNA for subsequent downstream processes.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.