SCFTIR1/AFB-Based Auxin Perception: Mechanism and Role in Plant Growth and Development

M Salehin, R Bagchi, M Estelle - The Plant Cell, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Auxin regulates a vast array of growth and developmental processes throughout the life
cycle of plants. Auxin responses are highly context dependent and can involve changes in …

Eukaryotic DNA replication fork

PMJ Burgers, TA Kunkel - Annual review of biochemistry, 2017 - annualreviews.org
This review focuses on the biogenesis and composition of the eukaryotic DNA replication
fork, with an emphasis on the enzymes that synthesize DNA and repair discontinuities on the …

Structure of eukaryotic CMG helicase at a replication fork and implications to replisome architecture and origin initiation

R Georgescu, Z Yuan, L Bai… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The eukaryotic CMG (Cdc45, Mcm2–7, GINS) helicase consists of the Mcm2–7 hexameric
ring along with five accessory factors. The Mcm2–7 heterohexamer, like other hexameric …

Rescuing stalled or damaged replication forks

JTP Yeeles, J Poli, KJ Marians… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2013 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
In recent years, an increasing number of studies have shown that prokaryotes and
eukaryotes are armed with sophisticated mechanisms to restart stalled or collapsed …

MCM: one ring to rule them all

TD Deegan, JFX Diffley - Current opinion in structural biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•The eukaryotic MCM replicative helicase is tightly regulated during the cell
cycle.•Conformational changes in MCM underpin the different stages of chromosome …

Replication fork activation is enabled by a single-stranded DNA gate in CMG helicase

MR Wasserman, GD Schauer, ME O'Donnell, S Liu - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The eukaryotic replicative helicase CMG is a closed ring around double-stranded (ds) DNA
at origins yet must transition to single-stranded (ss) DNA for helicase action. CMG must also …

Helicase activation and establishment of replication forks at chromosomal origins of replication

S Tanaka, H Araki - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2013 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Many replication proteins assemble on the pre-RC-formed replication origins and constitute
the pre-initiation complex (pre-IC). This complex formation facilitates the conversion of Mcm2 …

Mechanism of eukaryotic origin unwinding is a dual helicase DNA shearing process

LD Langston, RE Georgescu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
DNA replication in all cells begins with the melting of base pairs at the duplex origin to allow
access to single-stranded DNA templates which are replicated by DNA polymerases. In …

Mcm10 regulates DNA replication elongation by stimulating the CMG replicative helicase

M Lõoke, MF Maloney, SP Bell - Genes & development, 2017 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Activation of the Mcm2–7 replicative DNA helicase is the committed step in eukaryotic DNA
replication initiation. Although Mcm2–7 activation requires binding of the helicase-activating …

Mechanisms for initiating cellular DNA replication

A Costa, IV Hood, JM Berger - Annual review of biochemistry, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The initiation of DNA replication represents a committing step to cell proliferation.
Appropriate replication onset depends on multiprotein complexes that help properly …