The safe path at the fork: ensuring replication-associated DNA double-strand breaks are repaired by homologous recombination

JA Nickoloff, N Sharma, L Taylor, SJ Allen… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cells must replicate and segregate their DNA to daughter cells accurately to maintain
genome stability and prevent cancer. DNA replication is usually fast and accurate, with …

DNA helicases and their roles in cancer

S Dhar, A Datta, RM Brosh Jr - DNA repair, 2020 - Elsevier
DNA helicases, known for their fundamentally important roles in genomic stability, are high
profile players in cancer. Not only are there monogenic helicase disorders with a strong …

Lysine acetylation regulates the activity of nuclear Pif1

OE Ononye, CW Sausen, L Balakrishnan… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the Pif1 helicase functions in both nuclear and mitochondrial
DNA replication and repair processes, preferentially unwinding RNA: DNA hybrids and …

DNA2 in Chromosome Stability and Cell Survival—Is It All about Replication Forks?

JJR Hudson, U Rass - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The conserved nuclease-helicase DNA2 has been linked to mitochondrial myopathy, Seckel
syndrome, and cancer. Across species, the protein is indispensable for cell proliferation. On …

Canonical and novel non-canonical activities of the Holliday junction resolvase Yen1

R Carreira, FJ Aguado, V Hurtado-Nieves… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Yen1 and GEN1 are members of the Rad2/XPG family of nucleases that were identified as
the first canonical nuclear Holliday junction (HJ) resolvases in budding yeast and humans …

FANCD2 and RAD51 recombinase directly inhibit DNA2 nuclease at stalled replication forks and FANCD2 acts as a novel RAD51 mediator in strand exchange to …

W Liu, P Polaczek, I Roubal, Y Meng… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
FANCD2 protein, a key coordinator and effector of the interstrand crosslink repair pathway,
is also required to prevent excessive nascent strand degradation at hydroxyurea-induced …

Limiting homologous recombination at stalled replication forks is essential for cell viability: DNA2 to the rescue

R Appanah, D Jones, B Falquet, U Rass - Current genetics, 2020 - Springer
The disease-associated nuclease–helicase DNA2 has been implicated in DNA end-
resection during DNA double-strand break repair, Okazaki fragment processing, and the …

USP50 suppresses alternative RecQ helicase use and deleterious DNA2 activity during replication

HL Mackay, HR Stone, GE Ronson, K Ellis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Mammalian DNA replication relies on various DNA helicase and nuclease activities to
ensure accurate genetic duplication, but how different helicase and nuclease activities are …

Dynamic regulation of Pif1 acetylation is crucial to the maintenance of genome stability

OE Ononye, CW Sausen, ML Bochman, L Balakrishnan - Current genetics, 2021 - Springer
PIF1 family helicases are evolutionarily conserved among prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
These enzymes function to support genome integrity by participating in multiple DNA …

[HTML][HTML] Guardians of the Genome: Iron–Sulfur Proteins in the Nucleus

L Novoa-Aponte, A Leon-Torres, CC Philpott - Inorganics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Iron–sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are essential cofactors found in many proteins in the
mitochondria, cytosol, and nucleus of the cell. These versatile cofactors may undergo …