2005-08-01
Fen-1 facilitates homologous recombination by removing divergent sequences at DNA break ends
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Molecular and Cellular Biology , Volume 25 - Issue 16 p. 6948- 6955
Homologous recombination (HR) requires nuclease activities at multiple steps, but the contribution of individual nucleases to the processing of double-strand DNA ends at different stages of HR has not been clearly defined. We used chicken DT40 cells to investigate the role of flap endonuclease 1 (Fen-1) in HR. FEN-1-deficient cells exhibited a significant decrease in the efficiency of immunoglobulin gene conversion while being proficient in recombination between sister chromatids, suggesting that Fen-1 may play a role in HR between sequences of considerable divergence. To clarify whether sequence divergence at DNA ends is truly the reason for the observed HR defect in FEN-1(-/-) cells we inserted a unique I-SceI restriction site in the genome and tested various donor and recipient HR substrates. We found that the efficiency of HR-mediated DNA repair was indeed greatly diminished when divergent sequences were present at the DNA break site. We conclude that Fen-1 eliminates heterologous sequences at DNA damage site and facilitates DNA repair by HR.
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doi.org/10.1128/MCB.25.16.6948-6955.2005, hdl.handle.net/1765/9511 | |
Molecular and Cellular Biology | |
Organisation | Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam |
Kikuchi, K., Koyama, H., Jasin, M., van Gent, D., Takeda, S., Taniguchi, Y., … Adachi, N. (2005). Fen-1 facilitates homologous recombination by removing divergent sequences at DNA break ends. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 25(16), 6948–6955. doi:10.1128/MCB.25.16.6948-6955.2005 |