Function and molecular mechanism of the DNA damage response in immunity and cancer immunotherapy

Z Ye, Y Shi, SP Lees-Miller, JA Tainer - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The DNA damage response (DDR) is an organized network of multiple interwoven
components evolved to repair damaged DNA and maintain genome fidelity. Conceptually …

RecBCD enzyme: mechanistic insights from mutants of a complex helicase-nuclease

SK Amundsen, GR Smith - Microbiology and Molecular Biology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
RecBCD enzyme is a multi-functional protein that initiates the major pathway of homologous
genetic recombination and DNA double-strand break repair in Escherichia coli. It is also …

[PDF][PDF] Putting AlphaFold models to work with phenix. process_predicted_model and ISOLDE

RD Oeffner, TI Croll, C Millán, BK Poon… - … Section D: Structural …, 2022 - journals.iucr.org
AlphaFold has recently become an important tool in providing models for experimental
structure determination by X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM. Large parts of the predicted …

Translesion polymerase eta both facilitates DNA replication and promotes increased human genetic variation at common fragile sites

S Twayana, A Bacolla… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Common fragile sites (CFSs) are difficult-to-replicate genomic regions that form gaps and
breaks on metaphase chromosomes under replication stress. They are hotspots for …

Targeting ATR in patients with cancer

NYL Ngoi, PG Pilié, DJ McGrail… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Pharmacological inhibition of the ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related protein
serine/threonine kinase (ATR; also known as FRAP-related protein (FRP1)) has emerged as …

GRB2 stabilizes RAD51 at reversed replication forks suppressing genomic instability and innate immunity against cancer

Z Ye, S Xu, Y Shi, X Cheng, Y Zhang, S Roy… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Growth factor receptor-bound protein 2 (GRB2) is a cytoplasmic adapter for tyrosine kinase
signaling and a nuclear adapter for homology-directed-DNA repair. Here we find nuclear …

Repair and tolerance of DNA damage at the replication fork: A structural perspective

BF Eichman - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
The replication machinery frequently encounters DNA damage and other structural
impediments that inhibit progression of the replication fork. Replication-coupled processes …

CK2-dependent degradation of CBX3 dictates replication fork stalling and PARP inhibitor sensitivity

J Ma, D Ren, Z Wang, W Li, L Li, T Liu, Q Ye, Y Lei… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
DNA replication is a vulnerable cellular process, and its deregulation leads to genomic
instability. Here, we demonstrate that chromobox protein homolog 3 (CBX3) binds …

Discovery of a new hereditary RECQ helicase disorder RECON syndrome positions the replication stress response and genome homeostasis as centrally important …

A Datta, JA Sommers, SS Jhujh, T Harel… - Ageing research …, 2023 - Elsevier
Characterizing the molecular deficiencies underlying human aging has been a formidable
challenge as it is clear that a complex myriad of factors including genetic mutations …

PARP inhibition-associated heterochromatin confers increased DNA replication stress and vulnerability to ATR inhibition in SMARCA4-deficient cells

K Yano, M Kato, S Endo, T Igarashi, R Wada… - Cell Death …, 2025 - nature.com
DNA replication stress (RS), a prevalent feature of various malignancies, arises from both
genetic mutations and genotoxic exposure. Elevated RS levels increase the vulnerability of …