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Initiation of DNA replication requires the RECQL4 protein mutated in Rothmund-Thomson syndrome.
Cell - 17 Jun 2005
Sangrithi Mahesh N, Bernal Juan A, Madine Mark, Philpott Anna, Lee Joon, Dunphy William G, Venkitaraman Ashok R
Abstract excerpt
How the replication machinery is loaded at origins of DNA replication is poorly understood. Here, we implicate in this process the Xenopus laevis homolog (xRTS) of the RECQL4 helicase mutated in Rothmund-Thomson syndrome. xRTS, which bears homology to the yeast replication factors Sld2/DRC1, is essential for DNA replication in egg extracts. xRTS can be replaced in extracts by its human homolog, while RECQL4...
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