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NATURE CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 15, Issue 8, Pages 1008-U270Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2793
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- La Ligue Contre le Cancer
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-08-GENO-0013, ANR-09-GENO-000/repinsCFS]
- INCa-DGOS-INSERM [6043]
- Cancer, Aidez la recherche
- Institut National du Cancer (INCa) [2009-1-PLBIO-10-IC-1]
- Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer [SL220100601348, 8514]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-08-GENO-0013] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a hallmark of tumour initiation and progression(1). Some genomic regions are particularly unstable under replication stress, notably common fragile sites(2) (CFSs) whose rearrangements in tumour cells contribute to cancer development. Recent work has shown that the Fanconi anaemia (FANC) pathway plays a role in preventing defective chromosome segregation and CIN under conditions of replication stress(3). Strikingly, FANCD2 is recruited to regions hosting CFSs on metaphase chromosomes(4). To decipher the mechanisms protecting CFSs in G2/M, we searched for proteins that co-localize with FANCD2 on mitotic chromosomes, and identified XPF-ERCC1 and MUS81-EME1, two structure-specific endonucleases. We show that depletion of either ERCC1 or MUS81-EME1 affects accurate processing of replication intermediates or under-replicated DNA that persist at CFSs until mitosis. Depletion of these endonucleases also leads to an increase in the frequency of chromosome bridges during anaphase that, in turn, favours accumulation of DNA damage in the following G1 phase.
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