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CELL
Volume 159, Issue 2, Pages 346-357Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.024
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- Department of Defense Bone Marrow Research Program Postdoctoral Traineeship Award [W81XWH-13-1-0049]
- NIH [GM62267]
- Fanconi Anemia Research Fund
- Cancer Research UK [17575] Funding Source: researchfish
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DNA-protein crosslinks (DPCs) are caused by environmental, endogenous, and chemotherapeutic agents and pose a severe threat to genome stability. We use Xenopus egg extracts to recapitulate DPC repair in vitro and show that this process is coupled to DNA replication. A DPC on the leading strand template arrests the replisome by stalling the CMG helicase. The DPC is then degraded on DNA, yielding a peptide-DNA adduct that is bypassed by CMG. The leading strand subsequently resumes synthesis, stalls again at the adduct, and then progresses past the adduct using DNA polymerase zeta. A DPC on the lagging strand template only transiently stalls the replisome, but it too is degraded, allowing Okazaki fragment bypass. Our experiments describe a versatile, proteolysis-based mechanism of S phase DPC repair that avoids replication fork collapse.
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