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Replication fork reversal in eukaryotes: from dead end to dynamic response

Neelsen, Kai J; Lopes, Massimo (2015). Replication fork reversal in eukaryotes: from dead end to dynamic response. Nature Reviews. Molecular Cell Biology, 16(4):207-220.

Abstract

The remodelling of replication forks into four-way junctions following replication perturbation, known as fork reversal, was hypothesized to promote DNA damage tolerance and repair during replication. Albeit conceptually attractive, for a long time fork reversal in vivo was found only in prokaryotes and specific yeast mutants, calling its evolutionary conservation and physiological relevance into question. Based on the recent visualization of replication forks in metazoans, fork reversal has emerged as a global, reversible and regulated process, with intriguing implications for replication completion, chromosome integrity and the DNA damage response. The study of the putative in vivo roles of recently identified eukaryotic factors in fork remodelling promises to shed new light on mechanisms of genome maintenance and to provide novel attractive targets for cancer therapy.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, further contribution
Communities & Collections:04 Faculty of Medicine > Institute of Molecular Cancer Research
07 Faculty of Science > Institute of Molecular Cancer Research
Dewey Decimal Classification:570 Life sciences; biology
Scopus Subject Areas:Life Sciences > Molecular Biology
Life Sciences > Cell Biology
Language:English
Date:25 February 2015
Deposited On:12 Mar 2015 13:06
Last Modified:12 Jun 2025 01:40
Publisher:Nature Publishing Group
ISSN:1471-0072
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/nrm3935
PubMed ID:25714681

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