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Cell Rep 2023 Feb 28;422:112109. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112109.
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RTEL1 and MCM10 overcome topological stress during vertebrate replication termination.

Campos LV , Van Ravenstein SX , Vontalge EJ , Greer BH , Heintzman DR , Kavlashvili T , McDonald WH , Rose KL , Eichman BF , Dewar JM .


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Topological stress can cause converging replication forks to stall during termination of vertebrate DNA synthesis. However, replication forks ultimately overcome fork stalling, suggesting that alternative mechanisms of termination exist. Using proteomics in Xenopus egg extracts, we show that the helicase RTEL1 and the replisome protein MCM10 are highly enriched on chromatin during fork convergence and are crucially important for fork convergence under conditions of topological stress. RTEL1 and MCM10 cooperate to promote fork convergence and do not impact topoisomerase activity but do promote fork progression through a replication barrier. Thus, RTEL1 and MCM10 play a general role in promoting progression of stalled forks, including when forks stall during termination. Our data reveal an alternate mechanism of termination involving RTEL1 and MCM10 that can be used to complete DNA synthesis under conditions of topological stress.

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Species referenced: Xenopus laevis
Genes referenced: cdc45 cdc7 mcm10 rps3a rtel1 top2a
GO keywords: DNA topological change


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