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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 46, 期 3, 页码 1280-1294出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx1260
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- Villum Foundation
- Lundbeck Foundation
- European Research Council [ERCStG] [242905]
- Danish National Research Foundation [DNRF115]
- French Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer [S1220130607073]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [13-BSV6-0008-01]
- Institut National du Cancer [2013-103]
- Villum fonden
- European Research Council (ERC) [242905] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- Villum Fonden [00011407] Funding Source: researchfish
Common Chromosomal Fragile Sites (CFSs) are specific genomic regions prone to form breaks on metaphase chromosomes in response to replication stress. Moreover, CFSs are mutational hotspots in cancer genomes, showing that the mutational mechanisms that operate at CFSs are highly active in cancer cells. Orthologs of human CFSs are found in a number of other mammals, but the extent of CFS conservation beyond the mammalian lineage is unclear. Characterization of CFSs from distantly related organisms can provide new insight into the biology underlying CFSs. Here, we have mapped CFSs in an avian cell line. We find that, overall the most significant CFSs coincide with extremely large conserved genes, from which very long transcripts are produced. However, no significant correlation between any sequence characteristics and CFSs is found. Moreover, we identified putative early replicating fragile sites (ERFSs), which is a distinct class of fragile sites and we developed a fluctuation analysis revealing high mutation rates at the CFS gene PARK2, with deletions as the most prevalent mutation. Finally, we show that avian homologs of the human CFS genes despite their fragility have resisted the general intron size reduction observed in birds suggesting that CFSs have a conserved biological function.
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