Regulatory R-loops as facilitators of gene expression and genome stability

C Niehrs, B Luke - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
R-loops are three-stranded structures that harbour an RNA–DNA hybrid and frequently form
during transcription. R-loop misregulation is associated with DNA damage, transcription …

Chromosome Duplication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

SP Bell, K Labib - Genetics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The accurate and complete replication of genomic DNA is essential for all life. In eukaryotic
cells, the assembly of the multi-enzyme replisomes that perform replication is divided into …

Eukaryotic mismatch repair in relation to DNA replication

TA Kunkel, DA Erie - Annual review of genetics, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Three processes act in series to accurately replicate the eukaryotic nuclear genome. The
major replicative DNA polymerases strongly prevent mismatch formation, occasional …

Mismatch repair

R Fishel, JB Lee - … , and Repair: Molecular Mechanisms and Pathology, 2016 - Springer
The concept of mismatch repair (MMR) was formulated independently in 1964 to explain the
removal of brominated nucleotides from DNA as well as gene conversion during genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Enzymatic removal of ribonucleotides from DNA is essential for mammalian genome integrity and development

MAM Reijns, B Rabe, RE Rigby, P Mill, KR Astell… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
The presence of ribonucleotides in genomic DNA is undesirable given their increased
susceptibility to hydrolysis. Ribonuclease (RNase) H enzymes that recognize and process …

Absence of RNase H2 triggers generation of immunogenic micronuclei removed by autophagy

K Bartsch, K Knittler, C Borowski… - Human molecular …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Hypomorphic mutations in the DNA repair enzyme RNase H2 cause the neuroinflammatory
autoimmune disorder Aicardi-Goutières syndrome (AGS). Endogenous nucleic acids are …

Eukaryotic DNA replication fork

PMJ Burgers, TA Kunkel - Annual review of biochemistry, 2017 - annualreviews.org
This review focuses on the biogenesis and composition of the eukaryotic DNA replication
fork, with an emphasis on the enzymes that synthesize DNA and repair discontinuities on the …

[HTML][HTML] RNase H1 and H2 are differentially regulated to process RNA-DNA hybrids

A Lockhart, VB Pires, F Bento, V Kellner, S Luke-Glaser… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
RNA-DNA hybrids are tightly regulated to ensure genome integrity. The RNase H enzymes
RNase H1 and H2 contribute to chromosomal stability through the removal of RNA-DNA …

DNA mismatch repair and its many roles in eukaryotic cells

D Liu, G Keijzers, LJ Rasmussen - Mutation Research/Reviews in Mutation …, 2017 - Elsevier
DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is an important DNA repair pathway that plays critical roles in
DNA replication fidelity, mutation avoidance and genome stability, all of which contribute …

RNases H: Structure and mechanism

M Hyjek, M Figiel, M Nowotny - DNA repair, 2019 - Elsevier
RNases H are a family of endonucleases that hydrolyze RNA residues in various nucleic
acids. These enzymes are present in all branches of life, and their counterpart domains are …