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Mcm4 C-terminal domain of MCM helicase prevents excessive formation of single-stranded DNA at stalled replication forks.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2 Sept 2008
Nitani Naoki, Yadani Chie, Yabuuchi Hayato, Masukata Hisao, Nakagawa Takuro
Abstract excerpt
The minichromosome maintenance (MCM) helicase, composed of subunits Mcm2-7, is essential for the initiation and elongation phases of DNA replication. Even when DNA synthesis is blocked, MCM continues DNA unwinding to some extent for activation of the replication checkpoint and then stops. However, the mechanism of regulation of MCM-helicase activity remains unknown. Here, we show that truncation of the Mcm4...
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