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ReviewChromosoma2011

Processing of joint molecule intermediates by structure-selective endonucleases during homologous recombination in eukaryotes.

Erin K Schwartz, Wolf-Dietrich Heyer

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Review in Chromosoma, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 136 papers.

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136citing papers in PubMed
10.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

136 citing papers in PubMed, 187 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Direct evidence and quantification of homologous recognition between DNA duplexes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  7. Deep structure-function analysis of the endonuclease Mus81 with dominant mutational scanning.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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76 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

  • Erratum issued
5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Erin K SchwartzDepartment of Microbiology, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Wolf-Dietrich Heyer
University of California, Davis · US

Funding

RECOMBINATIONAL MECHANISMS OF DNA REPAIR IN EUKARYOTESR01GM058015 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI HEYER, WOLF-DIETRICH · 2000 to 2025
$8.8M
Regulation of Recombinational DNA RepairR01CA092276 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI HEYER, WOLF-DIETRICH · 2001 to 2020
$5.2M
NCI NIH HHS CA92276NCI NIH HHS R01 CA092276NIGMS NIH HHS GM58015NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM058015
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Homologous recombination is required for maintaining genomic integrity by functioning in high-fidelity repair of DNA double-strand breaks and other complex lesions, replication fork support, and meiotic chromosome segregation. Joint DNA molecules are key intermediates in recombination and their differential processing determines whether the genetic outcome is a crossover or non-crossover event. The Holliday model of recombination highlights the resolution of four-way DNA joint molecules, termed Holliday junctions, and the bacterial Holliday junction resolvase RuvC set the paradigm for the mechanism of crossover formation. In eukaryotes, much effort has been invested in identifying the eukaryotic equivalent of bacterial RuvC, leading to the discovery of a number of DNA endonucleases, including Mus81-Mms4/EME1, Slx1-Slx4/BTBD12/MUS312, XPF-ERCC1, and Yen1/GEN1. These nucleases exert different selectivity for various DNA joint molecules, including Holliday junctions. Their mutant phenotypes and distinct species-specific characteristics expose a surprisingly complex system of joint molecule processing. In an attempt to reconcile the biochemical and genetic data, we propose that nicked junctions constitute important in vivo recombination intermediates whose processing determines the efficiency and outcome (crossover/non-crossover) of homologous recombination.

Indexed as

Recombination, GeneticAnimalsDNA Breaks, Double-StrandedDNA, CruciformDNA RepairEndonucleasesEukaryotaHumansDNA, CruciformEndonucleases

Identifiers

PMID21369956
PMCPMC3057012
OpenAlexW2068246844

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