Journal
CELL CYCLE
Volume 12, Issue 12, Pages 1848-1860Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.4161/cc.25042
Keywords
DNA repair; double-strand breaks; homologous recombination; non-homologous end joining; chromatin; nucleases
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- Fondazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro (FIRC)
- AIRC
- Telethon
- MIUR
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DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are the most cytotoxic form of DNA damage, since they can lead to genome instability and chromosome rearrangements, which are hallmarks of cancer cells. To face this kind of lesion, eukaryotic cells developed two alternative repair pathways, homologous recombination (HR) and non-homologous end joining (NHEJ). Repair pathway choice is influenced by the cell cycle phase and depends upon the 5-3 nucleolytic processing of the break ends, since the generation of ssDNA tails strongly stimulates HR and inhibits NHEJ. A large amount of work has elucidated the key components of the DSBs repair machinery and how this crucial process is finely regulated. The emerging view suggests that besides endo/exonucleases and helicases activities required for end resection, molecular barrier factors are specifically loaded in the proximity of the break, where they physically or functionally limit DNA degradation, preventing excessive accumulation of ssDNA, which could be threatening for cell survival.
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