Abstract
Expanded CGG repeats cause chromosomal fragility and hereditary neurological disorders in humans. Replication forks stall at CGG repeats in a length-dependent manner in primate cells and in yeast. Saccharomyces cerevisiae proteins Tof1 and Mrc1 facilitate replication fork progression through CGG repeats. Remarkably, the fork-stabilizing role of Mrc1 does not involve its checkpoint function. Thus, chromosomal fragility might occur when forks stalled at expanded CGG repeats escape the S-phase checkpoint.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 226-228 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Nature Structural and Molecular Biology |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 2009 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Structural Biology
- Molecular Biology
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