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Methylation of Histone H3 on Lysine 79 Associates with a Group of Replication Origins and Helps Limit DNA Replication Once per Cell Cycle Haiqing Fu, 


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Efficient Initiation of DNA Replication in Eukaryotes Requires Dpb11/TopBP1-GINS Interaction Seiji Tanakaa,b, Yayoi Komedaa, Toshiko Umemoria, Yumiko Kubotac, Haruhiko Takisawac and Hiroyuki Araki Mol. Cell. Biol. July 2013 vol. 33 no. 13 2614-2622

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Insulator protein Su(Hw) recruits SAGA and Brahma complexes and constitutes part of Origin Recognition Complex-binding sites in the Drosophila genome Nadezhda E. Vorobyeva, Marina U. Mazina, Anton K. Golovnin, Daria V. Kopytova, Dmitriy Y. Gurskiy, Elena N. Nabirochkina, Sofia G. Georgieva, Pavel G. Georgiev, and Aleksey N. Krasnov Nucl. Acids Res. 2013 41: 5717-5730

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Kinetochores Coordinate Pericentromeric Cohesion and Early DNA Replication by Cdc7-Dbf4 Kinase Recruitment Toyoaki Natsume, Carolin A. Müller, Yuki Katou, Renata Retkute, Marek Gierliński, Hiroyuki Araki, J. Julian Blow, Katsuhiko Shirahige, Conrad A. Nieduszynski, Tomoyuki U. Tanaka Molecular Cell, Volume 50, Issue 5, 661-674

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Identification of a Heteromeric Complex That Promotes DNA Replication Origin Firing in Human Cells Dominik Boos, Mona Yekezare, John F. X. Diffley Science 24 May 2013: Vol. 340 no. 6135 pp. 981-984

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Pif1 family helicases suppress genome instability at G-quadruplex motifs Katrin Paeschke, Matthew L. Bochman, P. Daniela Garcia, Petr Cejka, Katherine L. Friedman, Stephen C. Kowalczykowski & Virginia A. Zakian Nature 497, 458–462 (23 May 2013)

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Dbf4 and Cdc7 Proteins Promote DNA Replication through Interactions with Distinct Mcm2-7 Protein Subunits Matthew D. Ramer, Evelyin S. Suman, Hagen Richter, Karen Stanger, Martina Spranger, Nicole Bieberstein, and Bernard P. Duncker J. Biol. Chem. 2013 288: 14926-14935.

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Coordinated Processing of 3' Slipped (CAG)n/(CTG)n Hairpins by DNA Polymerases {beta} and {delta} Preferentially Induces Repeat Expansions Nelson L. S. Chan, Jinzhen Guo, Tianyi Zhang, Guogen Mao, Caixia Hou, Fenghua Yuan, Jian Huang, Yanbin Zhang, Jianxin Wu, Liya Gu, and Guo-Min Li J. Biol. Chem. 2013 288: 15015-15022.

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MCM Loading—An Open-and-Shut Case? Rachel Y. Samson, Stephen D. Bell Mol cell Volume 50, Issue

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An ORC/Cdc6/MCM2-7 Complex Is Formed in a Multistep Reaction to Serve as a Platform for MCM Double-Hexamer Assembly Alejandra Fernández-Cid, Alberto Riera, Silvia Tognetti, M. Carmen Herrera, Stefan Samel, Cecile Evrin, Christian Winkler, Emanuela Gardenal, Stefan Uhle, Christian Speck Molecular Cell, Volume 50, Issue 4, 577-588, 18 April 2013

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RPA Coordinates DNA End Resection and Prevents Formation of DNA Hairpins Huan Chen, Michael Lisby, Lorraine S. Symington Molecular Cell, Volume 50, Issue 4, 589-600, 23 May 2013

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Cdc7-dependent and -independent phosphorylation of Claspin in the induction of the DNA replication checkpoint Michael D. Rainey, Brendan Harhen, Guan-Nan Wang, Paul V. Murphy and Corrado Santocanale Cell cycle 12 
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