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Down-regulation of Rad51 activity during meiosis in yeast prevents competition with Dmc1 for repair of double-strand breaks.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jan 2014
Liu Yan, Gaines William A, Callender Tracy, Busygina Valeria, Oke Ashwini, Sung Patrick, Fung Jennifer C, Hollingsworth Nancy M
Abstract excerpt
Interhomolog recombination plays a critical role in promoting proper meiotic chromosome segregation but a mechanistic understanding of this process is far from complete. In vegetative cells, Rad51 is a highly conserved recombinase that exhibits a preference for repairing double strand breaks (DSBs) using sister chromatids, in contrast to the conserved, meiosis-specific recombinase, Dmc1, which preferentially...
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