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ArticleNucleic acids research2025

Z-form DNA-RNA hybrid blocks DNA replication.

Shiyu Wang, Yan Xu

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  2. MACRO-MOLECULAR CROWDING FAVORS WRITHE IN UNWOUND DNA.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Shiyu WangDivision of Chemistry, Department of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, 5200 Kihara, Kiyotake, Miyazaki 889-1692, Japan.
Yan XuDivision of Chemistry, Department of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, 5200 Kihara, Kiyotake, Miyazaki 889-1692, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0379-8866

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 21H02081
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We discovered that the Z-form DNA-RNA hybrid stabilized by methylated CpG repeats impacts on the initiation and elongation of Okazaki fragments, contributing to blocking DNA replication at first time. We further present the first Z-form DNA-RNA hybrid structure by using NMR spectroscopy and dynamic computation, revealing the molecular mechanism of inhibition, indicating that a distinctive zig-zag strand pattern of the Z-form hybrid with a smaller helical diameter (15 Å) and a very narrow minor groove (8.3 Å) plays the key role in the repression toward DNA replication.

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DNADNA ReplicationDNA, Z-FormRNACpG IslandsDNA MethylationNucleic Acid ConformationDNADNA, Z-FormOkazaki fragmentsRNA

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PMID40037715
PMCPMC11879439

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