Fine-tuning of the Replisome: Mcm10 Regulates Fork Progression and Regression
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Several decades of research have identified Mcm10 hanging around the replisome making several critical contacts with a number of proteins but with no real disclosed function. Recently, the O'Donnell laboratory has been better able to map the interactions of Mcm10 with a larger Cdc45/GINS/MCM (CMG) unwinding complex placing it at the front of the replication fork. They have shown biochemically that Mcm10 has the impressive ability to strip off single-strand binding protein (RPA) and reanneal complementary DNA strands. This has major implications in controlling DNA unwinding speed as well as responding to various situations where fork reversal is needed. This work opens up a number of additional facets discussed here revolving around accessing the DNA junction for different molecular purposes within a crowded replisome. alt-NHEJ: Alternative Nonhomologous End-Joining; CC: Coli-Coil motif; CMG: Cdc45/GINS/MCM2-7; CMGM: Cdc45/GINS/Mcm2-7/Mcm10; CPT: Camptothecin; CSB: Cockayne Syndrome Group B protein; CTD: C-Terminal Domain; DSB: Double-Strand Break; DSBR: Double-Strand Break Repair; dsDNA: Double-Stranded DNA; GINS: san, Sld5-Psf1-Psf2-Psf3; HJ Dis: Holliday Junction dissolution; HJ Res: Holliday Junction resolution; HR: Homologous Recombination; ICL: Interstrand Cross-Link; ID: Internal Domain; MCM: Minichromosomal Maintenance; ND: Not Determined; NTD: N-Terminal Domain; PCNA: Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen; RPA: Replication Protein A; SA: Strand Annealing; SE: Strand Exchange; SEW: Steric Exclusion and Wrapping; ssDNA: Single-Stranded DNA; TCR: Transcription-Coupled Repair; TOP1: Topoisomerase.
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