Some corrections of the review article by Willis and Rhind (Joel Huberman, 18 August 2009)
The article by Willis and Rhind attempts to provide a detailed overview of several aspects of the S-phase DNA damage checkpoint. One of the biggest strengths of this article is its detailed survey of historical literature concerning effects of DNA damage upon DNA replication (even before the term 'checkpoint' was coined). But that does not mean that this article is perfect. A weakness of this article is that, in their attempt to unify the literature with simple hypotheses, the authors overlooked some of the literature that does not support those hypotheses. The consequence is that the review article, in its current form, is somewhat confusing and at times misleading.
However, we believe that if the reader is made aware of the shortcomings of this article, then the...
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interesting, but typos (Joan Hyde, 30 January 2008)
I wrote to mention that there are a number of typographical errors in the abstract, and to ask whether Biomed Central can counsel the authors about it.
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Typographical error in reference to estrogen receptor alpha (karen knudsen, 16 October 2006)
A comment from the author:There is an unfortunate typographical error in the final text, wherein a “B” was placed after “ER”.On page 2, the statement about estrogen-mediated regulation of the cyclin D1 locus should read: “……recent analyses revealed that the ability of estrogen to induce cyclin D1 in breast cancer cells can be executed through an enhancer region downstream of the cyclin D1 coding region, and involves recruitment of ER to that locus..”. Our apologies to the readers, as there is no intended connection of this statement to ER-beta.
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Some corrections of the review article by Willis and Rhind (Joel Huberman, 18 August 2009)
The article by Willis and Rhind attempts to provide a detailed overview of several aspects of the S-phase DNA damage checkpoint. One of the biggest strengths of this article is its detailed survey of historical literature concerning effects of DNA damage upon DNA replication (even before the term 'checkpoint' was coined). But that does not mean that this article is perfect. A weakness of this article is that, in their attempt to unify the literature with simple hypotheses, the authors overlooked some of the literature that does not support those hypotheses. The consequence is that the review article, in its current form, is somewhat confusing and at times misleading.
However, we believe that if the reader is made aware of the shortcomings of this article, then the... read full comment
Comment on: Willis et al. Cell Division, 4:13
interesting, but typos (Joan Hyde, 30 January 2008)
I wrote to mention that there are a number of typographical errors in the abstract, and to ask whether Biomed Central can counsel the authors about it. read full comment
Comment on: Vecchione et al. Cell Division, 2:24
Typographical error in reference to estrogen receptor alpha (karen knudsen, 16 October 2006)
A comment from the author:There is an unfortunate typographical error in the final text, wherein a “B” was placed after “ER”.On page 2, the statement about estrogen-mediated regulation of the cyclin D1 locus should read: “……recent analyses revealed that the ability of estrogen to induce cyclin D1 in breast cancer cells can be executed through an enhancer region downstream of the cyclin D1 coding region, and involves recruitment of ER to that locus..”. Our apologies to the readers, as there is no intended connection of this statement to ER-beta. read full comment
Comment on: Knudsen Cell Division, 1:15