19 December 2011

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Thermococcus kodakarensis encodes three MCM homologs but only one is essential

Miao Pan, Thomas J. Santangelo, Zhuo Li, John N. Reeve, and Zvi Kelman

Nucl. Acids Res. 2011 39: 9671-9680;

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Building a double hexamer of DNA helicase at eukaryotic replication origins

Karim Labib

The EMBO Journal (2011), 30,4853 – 4855

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Multiple Cdt1 molecules act at each origin to load replication-competent Mcm2–7 helicases

Thomas J Takara and Stephen P Bell

The EMBO Journal (2011), 30,4885 – 4896

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Drug-Sensitive DNA Polymerase δ Reveals a Role for Mismatch Repair in Checkpoint Activation in Yeast

Linda J. Reha-Krantz, Md. Shahjahan P. Siddique, Kelly Murphy, Andrea Tam, Michelle O’Carroll, Sam Lou, Amy Schultz, and Charles Boone

Genetics December 2011 189:1211-1224

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Purification and functional inactivation of the fission yeast MCMMCM–BP complex

Juan-juan Li, Jasmin Schnick, Jacqueline Hayles, Stuart A. MacNeill

Febs lett 24 3850-3855

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Biochemical and genetical analyses of the three mcm genes from the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Thermococcus kodakarensis

Sonoko Ishino, Seiji Fujino, Hiroya Tomita, Hiromi Ogino, Koichi Takao, Hiromi Daiyasu, Tamotsu Kanai, Haruyuki Atomi and Yoshizumi Ishino

Genes to Cells Volume 16, Issue 12 pages 1176–1189

12 December 2011

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Dynamic interactions of high Cdt1 and geminin levels regulate S phase in early Xenopus embryos

Jolanta Kisielewska and J. Julian Blow

Development 2012 139:63-74

6 December 2011

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Limiting replication initiation factors execute the temporal programme of origin firing in budding yeast

Davide Mantiero, Amanda Mackenzie, Anne Donaldson and Philip Zegerman

The EMBO Journal (2011) 30, 4805 – 4814

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Mus81-mediated DNA cleavage resolves replication forks stalled by topoisomerase I–DNA complexes

Marie Regairaz, Yong-Wei Zhang, Haiqing Fu, Keli K. Agama, Nalini Tata, Surbhi Agrawal, Mirit I. Aladjem, and Yves Pommier

JCB vol. 195 no. 5 739-749

28 November 2011

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Abundance of Prereplicative Complexes (Pre-RCs) Facilitates Recombinational Repair under Replication Stress in Fission Yeast

Kentaro Maki, Takahiro Inoue, Atsushi Onaka, Hiroko Hashizume, Naoko Somete, Yuko Kobayashi, Shigefumi Murakami, Chikako Shigaki, Tatsuro S. Takahashi, Hisao Masukata, and Takuro Nakagawa

J. Biol. Chem. 2011 286: 41701-41710.

21 November 2011

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Function of the origin recognition complex 1 (ORC1) outside DNA replication in Drosophila

So Young Park and Maki Asano

Cell cycle Volume 10 November 15, 2011 Pages 3957 - 3963

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The Unstructured C-terminal Tail of Yeast Dpb11 (Human TopBP1) Protein Is Dispensable for DNA Replication and the S Phase Checkpoint but Required for the G2/M Checkpoint

Vasundhara M. Navadgi-Patil, Sandeep Kumar, and Peter M. Burgers

J. Biol. Chem. 2011 286: 40999-41007.

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Decreased MCM2-6 in Drosophila S2 Cells Does Not Generate Significant DNA Damage or Cause a Marked Increase in Sensitivity to Replication Interference

Isabelle Crevel, Gilles Crevel, Thierry Gostan, Christelle de Renty, Vincent Coulon, Sue Cotterill

PLoS ONE 6(11): e27101

14 November 2011

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DNA Replication Timing Is Maintained Genome-Wide in Primary Human Myoblasts Independent of D4Z4 Contraction in FSH Muscular Dystrophy

Benjamin D. Pope, Koji Tsumagari, Dana Battaglia, Tyrone Ryba, Ichiro Hiratani, Melanie Ehrlich, David M. Gilbert

PLoS ONE 6(11): e27413

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Plk1 Phosphorylation of Orc2 Promotes DNA Replication under Conditions of Stress

Bing Song, X. Shawn Liu, Korbin Davis, and Xiaoqi Liu

Mol. Cell. Biol. December 2011 31:4844-4856