The initiation of DNA replication in eukaryotic cells begins with the assembly of pre-replicative complexes (pre-RCs) at many sites along each chromosome during the G1 phase of the cell cycle. Pre-RCs ...
In prokaryotes, DNA replication initiates at a single defined origin and proceeds bidirectionally via a multiprotein replisome that unwinds the duplex and synthesises new strands. Elongation is ...
When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication process can cause alterations in genomic DNA, promoting cellular ageing, cancer, ...