Humanizing yeast ORC sheds light on cancer therapy and human development

(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Researchers from the HKSUST and the HKU recently demonstrated that the selectivity determinant of Origin Recognition Complex for DNA binding lies in a 19-amino acid insertion helix in the Orc4 subunit, which is present in yeast but absent in human.
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