Fanconi anemia: current insights regarding epidemiology, cancer, and DNA repair

JD Peake, E Noguchi - Human genetics, 2022 - Springer
Fanconi anemia is a genetic disorder that is characterized by bone marrow failure, as well
as a predisposition to malignancies including leukemia and squamous cell carcinoma …

Regulation of homologous recombination in eukaryotes

WD Heyer, KT Ehmsen, J Liu - Annual review of genetics, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Homologous recombination (HR) is required for accurate chromosome segregation during
the first meiotic division and constitutes a key repair and tolerance pathway for complex DNA …

The Fanconi anemia pathway maintains genome stability by coordinating replication and transcription

RA Schwab, J Nieminuszczy, F Shah, J Langton… - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
DNA replication stress can cause chromosomal instability and tumor progression. One key
pathway that counteracts replication stress and promotes faithful DNA replication consists of …

How the fanconi anemia pathway guards the genome

GL Moldovan, AD D'Andrea - Annual review of genetics, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Fanconi Anemia (FA) is an inherited genomic instability disorder, caused by mutations in
genes regulating replication-dependent removal of interstrand DNA crosslinks. The Fanconi …

Advances in understanding the complex mechanisms of DNA interstrand cross-link repair

C Clauson, OD Schärer… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2013 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
DNA interstrand cross-links (ICLs) are lesions caused by a variety of endogenous
metabolites, environmental exposures, and cancer chemotherapeutic agents that have two …

Susceptibility pathways in Fanconi's anemia and breast cancer

AD D'Andrea - New England Journal of Medicine, 2010 - Mass Medical Soc
Fanconi's anemia is a rare disorder that arises from defective repair of damaged DNA. Of the
13 Fanconi's anemia genes, 3 are breast-cancer–susceptibility genes. One is identical to …

The Fanconi anemia DNA repair pathway: structural and functional insights into a complex disorder

H Walden, AJ Deans - Annual review of biophysics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Mutations in any of at least sixteen FANC genes (FANCA–Q) cause Fanconi anemia, a
disorder characterized by sensitivity to DNA interstrand crosslinking agents. The clinical …

The Bloom syndrome complex senses RPA-coated single-stranded DNA to restart stalled replication forks

AMK Shorrocks, SE Jones, K Tsukada… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The Bloom syndrome helicase BLM interacts with topoisomerase IIIα (TOP3A), RMI1 and
RMI2 to form the BTR complex, which dissolves double Holliday junctions to produce non …

The DNA translocase FANCM/MHF promotes replication traverse of DNA interstrand crosslinks

J Huang, S Liu, MA Bellani, AK Thazhathveetil, C Ling… - Molecular cell, 2013 - cell.com
The replicative machinery encounters many impediments, some of which can be overcome
by lesion bypass or replication restart pathways, leaving repair for a later time. However …

A histone-fold complex and FANCM form a conserved DNA-remodeling complex to maintain genome stability

Z Yan, M Delannoy, C Ling, D Daee, F Osman… - Molecular cell, 2010 - cell.com
FANCM remodels branched DNA structures and plays essential roles in the cellular
response to DNA replication stress. Here, we show that FANCM forms a conserved DNA …