Homologous recombination and the repair of DNA double-strand breaks

WD Wright, SS Shah, WD Heyer - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2018 - ASBMB
Homologous recombination enables the cell to access and copy intact DNA sequence
information in trans, particularly to repair DNA damage affecting both strands of the double …

RAD51 Gene Family Structure and Function

B Bonilla, SR Hengel, MKK Grundy… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Accurate DNA repair and replication are critical for genomic stability and cancer prevention.
RAD51 and its gene family are key regulators of DNA fidelity through diverse roles in double …

RAD51-dependent recruitment of TERRA lncRNA to telomeres through R-loops

M Feretzaki, M Pospisilova, R Valador Fernandes… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Telomeres—repeated, noncoding nucleotide motifs and associated proteins that are found
at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes—mediate genome stability and determine cellular …

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 …

The human Shu complex promotes RAD51 activity by modulating RPA dynamics on ssDNA

SR Hengel, KG Oppenheimer, CM Smith… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Templated DNA repair that occurs during homologous recombination and replication stress
relies on RAD51. RAD51 activity is positively regulated by BRCA2 and the RAD51 paralogs …

ssDNA accessibility of Rad51 is regulated by orchestrating multiple RPA dynamics

J Ding, X Li, J Shen, Y Zhao, S Zhong, L Lai… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The eukaryotic single-stranded DNA (ssDNA)-binding protein Replication Protein A (RPA)
plays a crucial role in various DNA metabolic pathways, including DNA replication and …

Visualization of direct and diffusion-assisted RAD51 nucleation by full-length human BRCA2 protein

O Belan, L Greenhough, L Kuhlen, R Anand… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Homologous recombination (HR) is essential for error-free repair of DNA double-strand
breaks, perturbed replication forks (RFs), and post-replicative single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms and regulation of replication fork reversal

MB Adolph, D Cortez - DNA repair, 2024 - Elsevier
DNA replication is remarkably accurate with estimates of only a handful of mutations per
human genome per cell division cycle. Replication stress caused by DNA lesions …

Interfering in apoptosis and DNA repair of cancer cells to conquer cisplatin resistance by platinum (IV) prodrugs

S Zhang, X Zhong, H Yuan, Y Guo, D Song, F Qi… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The dysregulation of apoptosis and DNA damage repair are two leading mechanisms of
cisplatin resistance. Two anticancer PtIV prodrugs with the formulas [Pt (NH3) 2Cl2 (L1) 2](1 …

A RAD51–ADP double filament structure unveils the mechanism of filament dynamics in homologous recombination

SC Luo, MC Yeh, YH Lien, HY Yeh, HL Siao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
ATP-dependent RAD51 recombinases play an essential role in eukaryotic homologous
recombination by catalyzing a four-step process: 1) formation of a RAD51 single-filament …