PCNA, the Maestro of the Replication Fork

George Lucian Moldovan, Boris Pfander, Stefan Jentsch

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Abstract

Inheritance requires genome duplication, reproduction of chromatin and its epigenetic information, mechanisms to ensure genome integrity, and faithful transmission of the information to progeny. Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA)-a cofactor of DNA polymerases that encircles DNA-orchestrates several of these functions by recruiting crucial players to the replication fork. Remarkably, many factors that are involved in replication-linked processes interact with a particular face of PCNA and through the same interaction domain, indicating that these interactions do not occur simultaneously during replication. Switching of PCNA partners may be triggered by affinity-driven competition, phosphorylation, proteolysis, and modification of PCNA by ubiquitin and SUMO.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)665-679
Number of pages15
JournalCell
Volume129
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - May 18 2007

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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