DNA end resection: mechanism and control

P Cejka, LS Symington - Annual review of genetics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are cytotoxic lesions that threaten genome integrity and
cell viability. Typically, cells repair DSBs by either nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) or …

DNA repair pathway choices in CRISPR-Cas9-mediated genome editing

C Xue, EC Greene - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Many clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR-
associated protein 9 (Cas9)-based genome editing technologies take advantage of Cas …

Polθ inhibitors elicit BRCA-gene synthetic lethality and target PARP inhibitor resistance

D Zatreanu, HMR Robinson, O Alkhatib… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
To identify approaches to target DNA repair vulnerabilities in cancer, we discovered
nanomolar potent, selective, low molecular weight (MW), allosteric inhibitors of the …

The MRE11–RAD50–NBS1 complex conducts the orchestration of damage signaling and outcomes to stress in DNA replication and repair

A Syed, JA Tainer - Annual review of biochemistry, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Genomic instability in disease and its fidelity in health depend on the DNA damage
response (DDR), regulated in part from the complex of meiotic recombination 11 homolog 1 …

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 …

Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 antagonizes DNA resection at double-strand breaks

MC Caron, AK Sharma, J O'Sullivan, LR Myler… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
PARP-1 is rapidly recruited and activated by DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). Upon
activation, PARP-1 synthesizes a structurally complex polymer composed of ADP-ribose …

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 …

A global view of meiotic double-strand break end resection

EP Mimitou, S Yamada, S Keeney - Science, 2017 - science.org
DNA double-strand breaks that initiate meiotic recombination are exonucleolytically
processed. This 5′→ 3′ resection is a central, conserved feature of recombination but …