Activation of ATR-related protein kinase upon DNA damage recognition

M Ma, A Rodriguez, K Sugimoto - Current genetics, 2020 - Springer
Chromosomes are constantly damaged by exogenous and endogenous factors. To cope
with DNA damage, eukaryotic cells are equipped with three phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase …

DNA damage checkpoint execution and the rules of its disengagement

CQX Yam, HH Lim, U Surana - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Chromosomes are susceptible to damage during their duplication and segregation or when
exposed to genotoxic stresses. Left uncorrected, these lesions can result in genomic …

Phosphoproteomics reveals distinct modes of Mec1/ATR signaling during DNA replication

FMB de Oliveira, D Kim, JR Cussiol, J Das, MC Jeong… - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Summary The Mec1/Tel1 kinases (human ATR/ATM) play numerous roles in the DNA
replication stress response. Despite the multi-functionality of these kinases, studies of their …

Sae2 controls Mre11 endo-and exonuclease activities by different mechanisms

T Tamai, G Reginato, R Ojiri, I Morita, A Avrutis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) must be repaired to ensure cell survival and genomic
integrity. In yeast, the Mre11-Rad50-Xrs2 complex (MRX) collaborates with Sae2 to initiate …

Structural basis of Mec1-Ddc2-RPA assembly and activation on single-stranded DNA at sites of damage

I Deshpande, A Seeber, K Shimada, JJ Keusch, H Gut… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
Summary Mec1-Ddc2 (ATR-ATRIP) is a key DNA-damage-sensing kinase that is recruited
through the single-stranded (ss) DNA-binding replication protein A (RPA) to initiate the DNA …

Yeast ATM and ATR kinases use different mechanisms to spread histone H2A phosphorylation around a DNA double-strand break

K Li, G Bronk, J Kondev… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
One of the hallmarks of DNA damage is the rapid spreading of phosphorylated histone H2A
(γ-H2AX) around a DNA double-strand break (DSB). In the budding yeast Saccharomyces …

3.9 Å structure of the yeast Mec1-Ddc2 complex, a homolog of human ATR-ATRIP

X Wang, T Ran, X Zhang, J Xin, Z Zhang, T Wu… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The ataxia telangiectasia–mutated and Rad3-related (ATR) kinase is a master regulator of
DNA damage response and replication stress in humans, but the mechanism of its activation …

Mechanism of auto-inhibition and activation of Mec1ATR checkpoint kinase

EA Tannous, LA Yates, X Zhang… - Nature structural & …, 2021 - nature.com
In response to DNA damage or replication fork stalling, the basal activity of Mec1ATR is
stimulated in a cell-cycle-dependent manner, leading to cell-cycle arrest and the promotion …

Extending gene ontology with gene association networks

J Peng, T Wang, J Wang, Y Wang, J Chen - Bioinformatics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Gene ontology (GO) is a widely used resource to describe the attributes for gene
products. However, automatic GO maintenance remains to be difficult because of the …

Assembly of Slx4 signaling complexes behind DNA replication forks

A Balint, TH Kim, D Gallo, JR Cussiol… - The EMBO …, 2015 - embopress.org
Obstructions to replication fork progression, referred to collectively as DNA replication stress,
challenge genome stability. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, cells lacking RTT 107 or SLX 4 …