Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

A replicator-specific binding protein essential for site-specific initiation of DNA replication in mammalian cells

  • Ya Zhang,
  • Liang Huang,
  • Haiqing Fu,
  • Owen K. Smith,
  • Chii Mei Lin,
  • Koichi Utani,
  • Mishal Rao,
  • William C. Reinhold,
  • Christophe E. Redon,
  • Michael Ryan,
  • RyangGuk Kim,
  • Yang You,
  • Harlington Hanna,
  • Yves Boisclair,
  • Qiaoming Long,
  • Mirit I. Aladjem

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11748
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Origins of mammalian DNA replication are poorly characterised because they lack an Identifiable consensus sequence. Here the authors identify RepID, a protein that binds to a subset of G-rich replication origins and facilitates initiation from those origins.