Making choices: DNA replication fork recovery mechanisms

CM Kondratick, MT Washington, M Spies - Seminars in cell & …, 2021 - Elsevier
DNA replication is laden with obstacles that slow, stall, collapse, and break DNA replication
forks. At each obstacle, there is a decision to be made whether to bypass the lesion, repair …

Fanconi anemia pathway as a prospective target for cancer intervention

W Liu, A Palovcak, F Li, A Zafar, F Yuan, Y Zhang - Cell & bioscience, 2020 - Springer
Fanconi anemia (FA) is a recessive genetic disorder caused by biallelic mutations in at least
one of 22 FA genes. Beyond its pathological presentation of bone marrow failure and …

FANCA promotes DNA double-strand break repair by catalyzing single-strand annealing and strand exchange

A Benitez, W Liu, A Palovcak, G Wang, J Moon, K An… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
FANCA is a component of the Fanconi anemia (FA) core complex that activates DNA
interstrand crosslink repair by monoubiquitination of FANCD2. Here, we report that purified …

Holding all the cards—how fanconi anemia proteins deal with replication stress and preserve genomic stability

A Datta, RM Brosh Jr - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Fanconi anemia (FA) is a hereditary chromosomal instability disorder often displaying
congenital abnormalities and characterized by a predisposition to progressive bone marrow …

Stress and DNA repair biology of the Fanconi anemia pathway

S Longerich, J Li, Y Xiong, P Sung… - Blood, The Journal of …, 2014 - ashpublications.org
Fanconi anemia (FA) represents a paradigm of rare genetic diseases, where the quest for
cause and cure has led to seminal discoveries in cancer biology. Although a total of 16 FA …

Maintenance of genome stability by Fanconi anemia proteins

A Palovcak, W Liu, F Yuan, Y Zhang - Cell & bioscience, 2017 - Springer
Persistent dysregulation of the DNA damage response and repair in cells causes genomic
instability. The resulting genetic changes permit alterations in growth and proliferation …

Human DNA exonuclease TREX1 is also an exoribonuclease that acts on single-stranded RNA

F Yuan, T Dutta, L Wang, L Song, L Gu, L Qian… - Journal of Biological …, 2015 - ASBMB
3′ repair exonuclease 1 (TREX1) is a known DNA exonuclease involved in autoimmune
disorders and the antiviral response. In this work, we show that TREX1 is also a RNA …

Delineating the role of FANCA in glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in β cells through its protein interactome

D Lagundžin, WF Hu, HCH Law, KL Krieger, F Qiao… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Hyperinsulinemia affects 72% of Fanconi anemia (FA) patients and an additional 25%
experience lowered glucose tolerance or frank diabetes. The underlying molecular …

Human Fanconi anemia complementation group a protein stimulates the 5'flap endonuclease activity of FEN1

L Qian, F Yuan, P Rodriguez-Tello, S Padgaonkar… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
In eukaryotic cells, Flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1) is a major structure-specific endonuclease
that processes 5'flapped structures during maturation of lagging strand DNA synthesis, long …

Head and neck cancer susceptibility and metabolism in Fanconi anemia

T Chihanga, S Vicente-Muñoz, S Ruiz-Torres, B Pal… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Germline loss-of-function mutations in any of over 20 known Fanconi
anemia (FA) genes cause the disorder FA. The FA pathway plays a key role in the repair of …