DNA end resection and its role in DNA replication and DSB repair choice in mammalian cells

F Zhao, W Kim, JA Kloeber, Z Lou - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2020 - nature.com
DNA end resection has a key role in double-strand break repair and DNA replication.
Defective DNA end resection can cause malfunctions in DNA repair and replication, leading …

The key players of parthanatos: opportunities for targeting multiple levels in the therapy of parthanatos-based pathogenesis

L Liu, J Li, Y Ke, X Zeng, J Gao, X Ba… - Cellular and Molecular Life …, 2022 - Springer
Parthanatos is a form of regulated cell death involved in the pathogenesis of many diseases,
particularly neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease …

Two defence systems eliminate plasmids from seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae

M Jaskólska, DW Adams, M Blokesch - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Horizontal gene transfer can trigger rapid shifts in bacterial evolution. Driven by a variety of
mobile genetic elements—in particular bacteriophages and plasmids—the ability to share …

A nuclease that mediates cell death induced by DNA damage and poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase-1

Y Wang, R An, GK Umanah, H Park, K Nambiar… - Science, 2016 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Poly (ADP-ribose)(PAR) polymerase-1 (PARP-1) is a nuclear enzyme
responding to oxidative stress and DNA damage. Excessive activation of PARP-1 causes an …

Metagenomic discovery of CRISPR-associated transposons

JR Rybarski, K Hu, AM Hill, CO Wilke… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
CRISPR-associated Tn7 transposons (CASTs) co-opt cas genes for RNA-guided
transposition. CASTs are exceedingly rare in genomic databases; recent surveys have …

Type I restriction enzymes and their relatives

WAM Loenen, DTF Dryden, EA Raleigh… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Type I restriction enzymes (REases) are large pentameric proteins with separate restriction
(R), methylation (M) and DNA sequence-recognition (S) subunits. They were the first …

Type II restriction endonucleases—a historical perspective and more

A Pingoud, GG Wilson, W Wende - Nucleic acids research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
This article continues the series of Surveys and Summaries on restriction endonucleases
(REases) begun this year in Nucleic Acids Research. Here we discuss 'Type II'REases, the …

Loss-of-function mutations in MGME1 impair mtDNA replication and cause multisystemic mitochondrial disease

C Kornblum, TJ Nicholls, TB Haack, S Schöler… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Known disease mechanisms in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) maintenance disorders alter
either the mitochondrial replication machinery (POLG, POLG2 and C10orf2),, or the …

A modular effector with a DNase domain and a marker for T6SS substrates

B Jana, CM Fridman, E Bosis, D Salomon - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Bacteria deliver toxic effectors via type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) to dominate
competitors, but the identity and function of many effectors remain unknown. Here we …

Catalytically inactive long prokaryotic Argonaute systems employ distinct effectors to confer immunity via abortive infection

X Song, S Lei, S Liu, Y Liu, P Fu, Z Zeng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Argonaute proteins (Agos) bind short nucleic acids as guides and are directed by them to
recognize target complementary nucleic acids. Diverse prokaryotic Agos (pAgos) play …