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The nature of mutations induced by replication–transcription collisions.
Nature - 7 Jul 2016
Sankar T Sabari, Wastuwidyaningtyas Brigitta D, Dong Yuexin, Lewis Sarah A, Wang Jue D
Abstract excerpt
The DNA replication and transcription machineries share a common DNA template and thus can collide with each other co-directionally or head-on. Replication–transcription collisions can cause replication fork arrest, premature transcription termination, DNA breaks, and recombination intermediates threatening genome integrity. Collisions may also trigger mutations, which are major contributors to genetic disease...
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