Cell cycle control in cancer

HK Matthews, C Bertoli, RAM de Bruin - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer is a group of diseases in which cells divide continuously and excessively. Cell
division is tightly regulated by multiple evolutionarily conserved cell cycle control …

DNA damage kinase signaling: checkpoint and repair at 30 years

MC Lanz, D Dibitetto, MB Smolka - The EMBO journal, 2019 - embopress.org
From bacteria to mammalian cells, damaged DNA is sensed and targeted by DNA repair
pathways. In eukaryotes, kinases play a central role in coordinating the DNA damage …

Double-strand break end resection and repair pathway choice

LS Symington, J Gautier - Annual review of genetics, 2011 - annualreviews.org
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are cytotoxic lesions that can result in mutagenic events
or cell death if left unrepaired or repaired inappropriately. Cells use two major pathways for …

Regulation of homologous recombination in eukaryotes

WD Heyer, KT Ehmsen, J Liu - Annual review of genetics, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Homologous recombination (HR) is required for accurate chromosome segregation during
the first meiotic division and constitutes a key repair and tolerance pathway for complex DNA …

Replication catastrophe: when a checkpoint fails because of exhaustion

L Toledo, KJ Neelsen, J Lukas - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
Proliferating cells rely on the so-called DNA replication checkpoint to ensure orderly
completion of genome duplication, and its malfunction may lead to catastrophic genome …

DNA end resection: many nucleases make light work

EP Mimitou, LS Symington - DNA repair, 2009 - Elsevier
Double-strand breaks (DSBs) are deleterious DNA lesions and if left unrepaired result in
severe genomic instability. Cells use two main pathways to repair DSBs: homologous …

Regulation of the MLH1–MLH3 endonuclease in meiosis

E Cannavo, A Sanchez, R Anand, L Ranjha, J Hugener… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
During prophase of the first meiotic division, cells deliberately break their DNA. These DNA
breaks are repaired by homologous recombination, which facilitates proper chromosome …

Phosphorylation of EXO1 by CDKs 1 and 2 regulates DNA end resection and repair pathway choice

N Tomimatsu, B Mukherjee… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Resection of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) is a pivotal step during which the choice
between NHEJ and HR DNA repair pathways is made. Although CDKs are known to control …

Nucleases and helicases take center stage in homologous recombination

EP Mimitou, LS Symington - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2009 - cell.com
Homologous recombination (HR)-mediated DNA double-strand break repair maintains
genome integrity. Although long-studied, an understanding of two essential steps in this …

Phosphorylation of Exo1 modulates homologous recombination repair of DNA double-strand breaks

E Bolderson, N Tomimatsu, DJ Richard… - Nucleic acids …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair via the homologous recombination
pathway is a multi-stage process, which results in repair of the DSB without loss of genetic …