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 …

Coiled‐coils: The long and short of it

L Truebestein, TA Leonard - Bioessays, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Coiled‐coils are found in proteins throughout all three kingdoms of life. Coiled‐coil domains
of some proteins are almost invariant in sequence and length, betraying a structural and …

[HTML][HTML] DNA double-strand break repair pathway choice is directed by distinct MRE11 nuclease activities

A Shibata, D Moiani, AS Arvai, J Perry, SM Harding… - Molecular cell, 2014 - cell.com
Summary MRE11 within the MRE11-RAD50-NBS1 (MRN) complex acts in DNA double-
strand break repair (DSBR), detection, and signaling; yet, how its endo-and exonuclease …

Double-strand break end resection and repair pathway choice

LS Symington, J Gautier - Annual review of genetics, 2011 - annualreviews.org
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are cytotoxic lesions that can result in mutagenic events
or cell death if left unrepaired or repaired inappropriately. Cells use two major pathways for …

Accurate SAXS profile computation and its assessment by contrast variation experiments

D Schneidman-Duhovny, M Hammel, JA Tainer… - Biophysical journal, 2013 - cell.com
A major challenge in structural biology is to characterize structures of proteins and their
assemblies in solution. At low resolution, such a characterization may be achieved by small …

Mechanisms and Regulation of Mitotic Recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

LS Symington, R Rothstein, M Lisby - Genetics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Homology-dependent exchange of genetic information between DNA molecules has a
profound impact on the maintenance of genome integrity by facilitating error-free DNA …

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 …

Structural basis of homologous recombination

Y Sun, TJ McCorvie, LA Yates, X Zhang - Cellular and Molecular Life …, 2020 - Springer
Homologous recombination (HR) is a pathway to faithfully repair DNA double-strand breaks
(DSBs). At the core of this pathway is a DNA recombinase, which, as a nucleoprotein …

Biochemical reconstitution of topological DNA binding by the cohesin ring

Y Murayama, F Uhlmann - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Cohesion between sister chromatids, mediated by the chromosomal cohesin complex, is a
prerequisite for faithful chromosome segregation in mitosis. Cohesin also has vital roles in …