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Distinct DNA repair pathways cause genomic instability at alternative DNA structures.
Nature communications - 13 Jan 2020
McKinney Jennifer A, Wang Guliang, Mukherjee Anirban, Christensen Laura, Subramanian Sai H Sankara, Zhao Junhua, Vasquez Karen M
Abstract excerpt
Alternative DNA structure-forming sequences can stimulate mutagenesis and are enriched at mutation hotspots in human cancer genomes, implicating them in disease etiology. However, the mechanisms involved are not well characterized. Here, we discover that Z-DNA is mutagenic in yeast as well as human cells, and that the nucleotide excision repair complex, Rad10-Rad1(ERCC1-XPF), and the mismatch repair complex,...
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