An overview of the molecular mechanisms of recombinational DNA repair

SC Kowalczykowski - Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives …, 2015 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Recombinational DNA repair is a universal aspect of DNA metabolism and is essential for
genomic integrity. It is a template-directed process that uses a second chromosomal copy …

Diverse functions of restriction-modification systems in addition to cellular defense

K Vasu, V Nagaraja - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Restriction-modification (RM) systems are ubiquitous and are often considered primitive
immune systems in bacteria. Their diversity and prevalence across the prokaryotic kingdom …

Oxidative Stress Resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans

D Slade, M Radman - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Deinococcus radiodurans is a robust bacterium best known for its capacity to repair massive
DNA damage efficiently and accurately. It is extremely resistant to many DNA-damaging …

DNA double-strand break repair: all's well that ends well

C Wyman, R Kanaar - Annu. Rev. Genet., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Breaks in both DNA strands are a particularly dangerous threat to genome stability. At a
DNA double-strand break (DSB), potentially lost sequence information cannot be recovered …

End resection at double-strand breaks: mechanism and regulation

LS Symington - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2014 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
RecA/Rad51 catalyzed pairing of homologous DNA strands, initiated by polymerization of
the recombinase on single-stranded DNA (ssDNA), is a universal feature of homologous …

RecBCD enzyme and the repair of double-stranded DNA breaks

MS Dillingham, SC Kowalczykowski - Microbiology and Molecular …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY The RecBCD enzyme of Escherichia coli is a helicase-nuclease that initiates the
repair of double-stranded DNA breaks by homologous recombination. It also degrades …

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 …

Regulation of bacterial RecA protein function

MM Cox - Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular biology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
The RecA protein is a recombinase functioning in recombinational DNA repair in bacteria.
RecA is regulated at many levels. The expression of the recA gene is regulated within the …

Crystal structure of RecBCD enzyme reveals a machine for processing DNA breaks

MR Singleton, MS Dillingham, M Gaudier… - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
RecBCD is a multi-functional enzyme complex that processes DNA ends resulting from a
double-strand break. RecBCD is a bipolar helicase that splits the duplex into its component …

Non-hexameric DNA helicases and translocases: mechanisms and regulation

TM Lohman, EJ Tomko, CG Wu - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2008 - nature.com
Helicases and nucleic acid translocases are motor proteins that have essential roles in
nearly all aspects of nucleic acid metabolism, ranging from DNA replication to chromatin …