21 February 2022

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The yeast Dbf4 Zn2+ finger domain suppresses single-stranded DNA at replication forks initiated from a subset of origins Jeff Bachant, Elizabeth A. Hoffman, Chris Caridi, Constance I. Nugent & Wenyi Feng Current Genetics (2022)

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Metabolic remodeling maintains a reducing environment for rapid activation of the yeast DNA replication checkpoint Lili Li, Jie Wang, Zijia Yang, Yiling Zhao, Hui Jiang, Luguang Jiang, Wenya Hou, Risheng Ye, Qun He, Martin Kupiec, Brian Luke, Qinhong Cao, Zhi Qi, Zhen Li, Huiqiang Lou The EMBO Journal (2022)41:e108290

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Yeast Stn1 promotes MCM to circumvent Rad53 control of the S phase checkpoint Hovik Gasparayan, Chris Caridi, Jeff Julius, Wenyi Feng, Jeff Bachant & Constance I. Nugent Current Genetics (2022)

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A novel link between the DNA replication machinery and chromatin assembly J Cell Sci (2022) 135 (2): e135_e0202.

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SAF-A promotes origin licensing and replication fork progression to ensure robust DNA replication Caitlin Connolly,Saori Takahashi,Hisashi Miura,Ichiro Hiratani,Nick Gilbert,Anne D. Donaldson,Shin-Ichiro Hiraga J Cell Sci (2022) 135 (2): jcs258991.

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Oligomerization of DNA replication regulatory protein RADX is essential to maintain replication fork stability Taha Mohamed, Madison B. Adolph, David Cortez JBC in press

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Proline-specific aminopeptidase P prevents replication-associated genome instability Nicola Silva, Maikel Castellano-Pozo, Kenichiro Matsuzaki, Consuelo Barroso, Monica Roman-Trufero, Hannah Craig, Darren R. Brooks, R. Elwyn Isaac, Simon J. Boulton, Enrique Martinez-Perez PLoS Genet 18(1): e1010025.

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Stimulation of adaptive gene amplification by origin firing under replication fork constraint Alex J Whale, Michelle King, Ryan M Hull, Felix Krueger, Jonathan Houseley Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 50, Issue 2, 25 January 2022, Pages 915–936,

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Probing the mechanisms of two exonuclease domain mutators of DNA polymerase ϵ Joseph M Dahl, Natalie Thomas, Maxwell A Tracy, Brady L Hearn, Lalith Perera, Scott R Kennedy, Alan J Herr, Thomas A Kunkel Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 50, Issue 2, 25 January 2022,

24 January 2022

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How asymmetric DNA replication achieves symmetrical fidelity Zhi-Xiong Zhou, Scott A. Lujan, Adam B. Burkholder, Jordan St. Charles, Joseph Dahl, Corinne E. Farrell, Jessica S. Williams & Thomas A. Kunkel Nature Structural & Molecular Biology volume 28, pages 1020–1028 (2021)

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Blm helicase facilitates rapid replication of repetitive DNA sequences in early Drosophila development Jolee M Ruchert, Morgan M Brady, Susan McMahan, Karly J Lacey, Leigh C Latta, Jeff Sekelsky, Eric P Stoffregen Genetics, Volume 220, Issue 1, January 2022, iyab169

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Geminin is essential for DNA re-replication in the silk gland cells of silkworms Tai-HangLiu, Xiao-Long Dong, Peng Chen, QianZhang, Xiao-LinZhou, ChengLu, Min-HuiPan Experimental Cell Research Volume 410, Issue 1, 1 January 2022, 112951

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Water skating: How polymerase sliding clamps move on DNA Huilin Li, Fengwei Zheng, Mike O’Donnell Febs JournalVolume288, Issue24 December 2021 Pages 7256-7262

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CMG helicase can use ATPγS to unwind DNA: Implications for the rate-limiting step in the reaction mechanism Nina Y. Yao, Dan Zhang, Olga Yurieva, and Michael E. O’Donnell PNAS January 25, 2022 119 (4) e2119580119

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Structural mechanism for the selective phosphorylation of DNA-loaded MCM double hexamers by the Dbf4-dependent kinase Julia F. Greiwe, Thomas C. R. Miller, Julia Locke, Fabrizio Martino, Steven Howell, Anne Schreiber, Andrea Nans, John F. X. Diffley & Alessandro Costa Nature Structural & Molecular Biology volume 29, pages 10–20 (2022)