Coordination between DNA replication and DNA repair ensures maintenance of genome integrity, which is lost in cancer cells. Emerging evidence has linked homologous recombination (HR) proteins RAD51, BRCA1 and BRCA2 to the stability of nascent DNA. This function appears to be distinct from double-strand break (DSB) repair and is in part due to the prevention of MRE11-mediated degradation of nascent DNA at stalled forks. The role of RAD51 in fork protection resembles the activity described for its prokaryotic orthologue RecA, which prevents nuclease-mediated degradation of DNA and promotes replication fork restart in cells challenged by DNA-damaging agents. Here, we examine the mechanistic aspects of HR-mediated fork protection, addressing the crosstalk between HR and replication proteins.
Moonlighting at replication forks - a new life for homologous recombination proteins BRCA1, BRCA2 and RAD51 / A.M. Kolinjivadi, V. Sannino, A. de Antoni, H. Técher, G. Baldi, V. Costanzo. - In: FEBS LETTERS. - ISSN 0014-5793. - 591:8(2017), pp. 1083-1100. [10.1002/1873-3468.12556]
Moonlighting at replication forks - a new life for homologous recombination proteins BRCA1, BRCA2 and RAD51
G. BaldiPenultimo
Investigation
;V. CostanzoUltimo
Supervision
2017
Abstract
Coordination between DNA replication and DNA repair ensures maintenance of genome integrity, which is lost in cancer cells. Emerging evidence has linked homologous recombination (HR) proteins RAD51, BRCA1 and BRCA2 to the stability of nascent DNA. This function appears to be distinct from double-strand break (DSB) repair and is in part due to the prevention of MRE11-mediated degradation of nascent DNA at stalled forks. The role of RAD51 in fork protection resembles the activity described for its prokaryotic orthologue RecA, which prevents nuclease-mediated degradation of DNA and promotes replication fork restart in cells challenged by DNA-damaging agents. Here, we examine the mechanistic aspects of HR-mediated fork protection, addressing the crosstalk between HR and replication proteins.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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