The replication fork: Understanding the eukaryotic replication machinery and the challenges to genome duplication

Genes

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-32

  Leman, Adam R ^a,b   Noguchi, Eishi ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Checkpoint; Difficult to replicate sites; DNA replication; Fork barriers; Genome stability; Replication fork; Replisome

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; ATR PROTEIN; CYCLINE; DNA POLYMERASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GENOMIC DNA; HELICASE; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN; OKAZAKI FRAGMENT; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX; POL PROTEIN; REPLICATION FACTOR C; RIBOSOME DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CHROMATIN; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA DAMAGE CHECKPOINT; DNA HELIX; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPLICATION FORK; REPLISOME; REVIEW; STRUCTURAL GENE;

EID: 84875164760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes4010001     Document Type: Review

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