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Holliday junctions accumulate in replication mutants via a RecA homolog-independent mechanism.
Cell - 11 Jul 1997
Zou H, Rothstein R
Abstract excerpt
The Holliday junction recombination intermediate, an X-shaped DNA molecule (xDNA), was analyzed at rDNA in mitotically growing yeast. In wild-type cells, xDNA is only detected at S phase, suggesting that recombination is stimulated to repair replication-related lesions. A search for mutations that increase the level of xDNA uncovered a gene encoding a subunit of DNA polymerase alpha. Systematic examination of...
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