Advances in genome editing through control of DNA repair pathways

CD Yeh, CD Richardson, JE Corn - Nature cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Eukaryotic cells deploy overlapping repair pathways to resolve DNA damage.
Advancements in genome editing take advantage of these pathways to produce permanent …

Mechanism and regulation of DNA end resection in eukaryotes

LS Symington - Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) by homologous recombination (HR) is
initiated by nucleolytic degradation of the 5′-terminated strands in a process termed end …

53BP1: a DSB escort

Z Mirman, T de Lange - Genes & development, 2020 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Abstract 53BP1 is an enigmatic DNA damage response factor that gained prominence
because it determines the efficacy of PARP1 inhibitory drugs (PARPi) in BRCA1-deficient …

Single-molecule imaging reveals how Mre11-Rad50-Nbs1 initiates DNA break repair

LR Myler, IF Gallardo, MM Soniat, RA Deshpande… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair is essential for maintaining our genomes. Mre11-
Rad50-Nbs1 (MRN) and Ku70-Ku80 (Ku) direct distinct DSB repair pathways, but the …

53BP1, BRCA1, and the choice between recombination and end joining at DNA double-strand breaks

JM Daley, P Sung - Molecular and cellular biology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
When DNA double-strand breaks occur, the cell cycle stage has a major influence on the
choice of the repair pathway employed. Specifically, nonhomologous end joining is the …

DNA end resection: nucleases team up with the right partners to initiate homologous recombination

P Cejka - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2015 - ASBMB
The repair of DNA double-strand breaks by homologous recombination commences by
nucleolytic degradation of the 5′-terminated strand of the DNA break. This leads to the …

Quantitation of DNA double-strand break resection intermediates in human cells

Y Zhou, P Caron, G Legube, TT Paull - Nucleic acids research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract 5′ strand resection at DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) is critical for homologous
recombination (HR) and genomic stability. Here we develop a novel method to quantitatively …

Replication protein A: a multifunctional protein with roles in DNA replication, repair and beyond

R Dueva, G Iliakis - NAR cancer, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) forms continuously during DNA replication and is an
important intermediate during recombination-mediated repair of damaged DNA. Replication …

Coordinated nuclease activities counteract Ku at single-ended DNA double-strand breaks

P Chanut, S Britton, J Coates, SP Jackson… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Repair of single-ended DNA double-strand breaks (seDSBs) by homologous recombination
(HR) requires the generation of a 3′ single-strand DNA overhang by exonuclease activities …

Catalytic and noncatalytic roles of the CtIP endonuclease in double-strand break end resection

N Makharashvili, AT Tubbs, SH Yang, H Wang… - Molecular cell, 2014 - cell.com
The carboxy-terminal binding protein (CtBP)-interacting protein (CtIP) is known to function in
5′ strand resection during homologous recombination, similar to the budding yeast Sae2 …