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The Human Replicative Helicase, the CMG Complex, as a Target for Anti-cancer Therapy

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, March 2018
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Title
The Human Replicative Helicase, the CMG Complex, as a Target for Anti-cancer Therapy
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Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, March 2018
DOI 10.3389/fmolb.2018.00026
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Yeon-Soo Seo, Young-Hoon Kang

Abstract

DNA helicases unwind or rearrange duplex DNA during replication, recombination and repair. Helicases of many pathogenic organisms such as viruses, bacteria, and protozoa have been studied as potential therapeutic targets to treat infectious diseases, and human DNA helicases as potential targets for anti-cancer therapy. DNA replication machineries perform essential tasks duplicating genome in every cell cycle, and one of the important functions of these machineries are played by DNA helicases. Replicative helicases are usually multi-subunit protein complexes, and the minimal complex active as eukaryotic replicative helicase is composed of 11 subunits, requiring a functional assembly of two subcomplexes and one protein. The hetero-hexameric MCM2-7 helicase is activated by forming a complex with Cdc45 and the hetero-tetrameric GINS complex; the Cdc45-Mcm2-7-GINS (CMG) complex. The CMG complex can be a potential target for a treatment of cancer and the feasibility of this replicative helicase as a therapeutic target has been tested recently. Several different strategies have been implemented and are under active investigations to interfere with helicase activity of the CMG complex. This review focuses on the molecular function of the CMG helicase during DNA replication and its relevance to cancers based on data published in the literature. In addition, current efforts made to identify small molecules inhibiting the CMG helicase to develop anti-cancer therapeutic strategies were summarized, with new perspectives to advance the discovery of the CMG-targeting drugs.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 102 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 18%
Student > Master 17 17%
Researcher 16 16%
Student > Bachelor 15 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 4%
Other 8 8%
Unknown 24 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 44 43%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 4%
Chemistry 4 4%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 3%
Other 10 10%
Unknown 28 27%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 April 2018.
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#14,098,338
of 23,031,582 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
#1,049
of 3,875 outputs
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#180,516
of 329,870 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
#19
of 36 outputs
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