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cell cycle
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cell cycle
n.
The series of biochemical and structural events involving the growth, replication, and division of a eukaryotic cell.

cell cycle,
n divided into five stages, the resting phase (G0), the first phase of growth and protein synthesis (G1), the DNA synthesis phase (S), a second phase of growth and protein synthesis (G2), and a final phase in which the cell enters mitosis (M).
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The compound, which specifically inhibits mitotic kinesin Eg5, arrests the cell division cycle of cancer cells at the mitotic phase and induces apoptosis.
We found that genes required for the replication of chromosomal DNA (PCNA, FEN1, CDC6, MCM2, MCM3, MCM4, MCM5, ORC1, ORC6, RRM1, RRM2) and genes required for postreplicative phases of the cell division cycle (e.
It interferes with DNA synthesis by causing single-strand DNA breaks and induces arrest of the cell division cycle at G2 phase.
 
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