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Title: DNA Sliding Clamps: Just the Right Twist to Load onto DNA

Journal Article · · Current Biology

Two recent papers illuminate a long sought step in DNA sliding clamp loading. One paper reveals the structure of the PCNA clamp wrapped around DNA--still open from being loaded--while a second paper discovers that the clamp may assist this process by forming a right-handed helix upon opening.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
885400
Report Number(s):
UCRL-JRNL-216541; TRN: US200616%%547
Journal Information:
Current Biology, Vol. 15, Issue 24
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (15)

Three-dimensional structure of the β subunit of E. coli DNA polymerase III holoenzyme: A sliding DNA clamp journal May 1992
The PCNA–RFC Families of DNA Clamps and Clamp Loaders book January 2004
Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA): a dancer with many partners journal August 2003
CELLULAR DNA REPLICASES: Components and Dynamics at the Replication Fork journal June 2005
A Sliding-Clamp Toolbelt Binds High- and Low-Fidelity DNA Polymerases Simultaneously journal September 2005
Interaction of the   sliding clamp with MutS, ligase, and DNA polymerase I journal July 2001
Pre-steady State Analysis of the Assembly of Wild Type and Mutant Circular Clamps of Escherichia coli DNA Polymerase III onto DNA journal September 1998
Structural analysis of a eukaryotic sliding DNA clamp–clamp loader complex journal June 2004
Open clamp structure in the clamp-loading complex visualized by electron microscopic image analysis journal September 2005
Out-of-plane motions in open sliding clamps: Molecular dynamics simulations of eukaryotic and archaeal proliferating cell nuclear antigen journal September 2005
The internal workings of a DNA polymerase clamp-loading machine journal February 1999
ATP Utilization by Yeast Replication Factor C journal September 2001
Distinct roles for ATP binding and hydrolysis at individual subunits of an archaeal clamp loader journal March 2004
Ordered ATP Hydrolysis in the γ Complex Clamp Loader AAA+ Machine journal April 2003
Crystal Structure of the Processivity Clamp Loader Gamma (γ) Complex of E. coli DNA Polymerase III journal August 2001

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