DNA replication and replication stress response in the context of nuclear architecture

D González-Acosta, M Lopes - Chromosoma, 2024 - Springer
The DNA replication process needs to be coordinated with other DNA metabolism
transactions and must eventually extend to the full genome, regardless of chromatin status …

Looping out of control: R-loops in transcription-replication conflict

C Kumar, D Remus - Chromosoma, 2024 - Springer
Transcription-replication conflict is a major cause of replication stress that arises when
replication forks collide with the transcription machinery. Replication fork stalling at sites of …

TUG1-mediated R-loop resolution at microsatellite loci as a prerequisite for cancer cell proliferation

MM Suzuki, K Iijima, K Ogami, K Shinjo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Oncogene-induced DNA replication stress (RS) and consequent pathogenic R-loop
formation are known to impede S phase progression. Nonetheless, cancer cells …

Transcription–replication conflicts underlie sensitivity to PARP inhibitors

M Petropoulos, A Karamichali, GG Rossetti… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
An important advance in cancer therapy has been the development of poly (ADP-ribose)
polymerase (PARP) inhibitors for the treatment of homologous recombination (HR)-deficient …

Colorimetric evaluation of total antioxidant capacity based on peroxidase-like nonstoichiometric Cu2-xSe nanoparticles

H Ni, X Li, G Yan, C Huang, H Zou - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2024 - Elsevier
Antioxidants can help trap and neutralize free reactive oxygen species to reduce their
damage. Thus, it is important to evaluate the content of antioxidants in foods and drugs. In …

Senataxin RNA/DNA helicase promotes replication restart at co-transcriptional R-loops to prevent MUS81-dependent fork degradation

S Rao, M Andrs, K Shukla, E Isik, C König… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Replication forks stalled at co-transcriptional R-loops can be restarted by a mechanism
involving fork cleavage-religation cycles mediated by MUS81 endonuclease and DNA …

Hypoxia-induced transcriptional stress is mediated by ROS-induced R-loops

TS Ma, KR Worth, C Maher, N Ng, C Beghè… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Hypoxia is a common feature of solid tumors and is associated with poor patient prognosis,
therapy resistance and metastasis. Radiobiological hypoxia (< 0.1% O2) is one of the few …

RNase H2 degrades toxic RNA: DNA hybrids behind stalled forks to promote replication restart

J Heuzé, S Kemiha, A Barthe, AT Vilarrubias… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
R‐loops represent a major source of replication stress, but the mechanism by which these
structures impede fork progression remains unclear. To address this question, we monitored …

Functional ex vivo DNA fibre assay to measure replication dynamics in breast cancer tissue

M Chen, N van den Tempel… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Replication stress (RS) is a key trait of cancer cells, and a potential actionable target in
cancer treatment. Accurate methods to measure RS in tumour samples are currently lacking …

MutSβ-MutLβ-FANCJ axis mediates the restart of DNA replication after fork stalling at cotranscriptional G4/R-loops

E Isik, K Shukla, M Pospisilova, C König, M Andrs… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Transcription-replication conflicts (TRCs) induce formation of cotranscriptional RNA: DNA
hybrids (R-loops) stabilized by G-quadruplexes (G4s) on the displaced DNA strand, which …