Cells have evolved careful checks to ensure DNA is copied only once, but how they switch on replication at the right moment ...
Cdc7 kinase, in complex with its regulatory subunit Dbf4, orchestrates the initiation of eukaryotic DNA replication by phosphorylating components of the Mcm2–7 helicase complex at replication origins.
DNA end resection is a crucial early step in most DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair pathways. Resection involves the nucleolytic degradation of 5′ ends at DSB sites to generate 3′ single-stranded ...
Therapeutic landscape of Rad51 in cancer treatment. Key elements include (1) DNA damage sources (PARPi, chemo/radiotherapy);(2) repair pathways (Rad51‐mediated HR); (3) intervention strategies (Rad51 ...
Typically, the information encoded in DNA allows organisms to develop, function, and pass traits across generations. Yet DNA ...
Researchers shed new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that has attracted attention as a potential therapeutic target in cancer. Every day, billions of cells in your body ...
Every cell type in the human body carries the same approximately 3.2 billion base pairs of DNA, yet a liver cell behaves nothing like a neuron. The epigenome explains this difference: in each cell, ...