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NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 6, Pages 350-363Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/nrm.2016.37
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- Intramural Research Program of the US National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
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The information encoded in DNA is influenced by the presence of non-canonical nucleotides, the most frequent of which are ribonucleotides. In this Review, we discuss recent discoveries about ribonucleotide incorporation into DNA during replication by the three major eukaryotic replicases, DNA polymerases alpha, delta and epsilon. The presence of ribonucleotides in DNA causes short deletion mutations and may result in the generation of single-and double-strand DNA breaks, leading to genome instability. We describe how these ribonucleotides are removed from DNA through ribonucleotide excision repair and by topoisomerase I. We discuss the biological consequences and the physiological roles of ribonucleotides in DNA, and consider how deficiencies in their removal from DNA may be important in the aetiology of disease.
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