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ArticleNucleic acids research2012

FANCJ coordinates two pathways that maintain epigenetic stability at G-quadruplex DNA.

Peter Sarkies, Pierre Murat, Lara G Phillips, K J Patel, Shankar Balasubramanian, Julian E Sale

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 131 papers.

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131citing papers in PubMed
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131 citing papers in PubMed, 214 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Peter SarkiesMedical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.
Pierre Murat
Lara G Phillips
K J Patel
Shankar Balasubramanian
Julian E Sale
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology · GBCancer Research UK · GBMedical Research Council · GB

Funding

Cancer Research UK 11961Cancer Research UK C9681/A5709Medical Research Council MC_U105178808Medical Research Council MC_U105178811Medical Research Council MC_US_A024_0039Worldwide Cancer Research 11-0514
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We have previously reported that DT40 cells deficient in the Y-family polymerase REV1 are defective in replicating G-quadruplex DNA. In vivo this leads to uncoupling of DNA synthesis from redeposition of histones displaced ahead of the replication fork, which in turn leads to loss of transcriptional repression due to failure to recycle pre-existing repressive histone post-translational modifications. Here we report that a similar process can also affect transcriptionally active genes, leading to their deactivation. We use this finding to develop an assay based on loss of expression of a cell surface marker to monitor epigenetic instability at the level of single cells. This assay allows us to demonstrate G4 DNA motif-associated epigenetic instability in mutants of three helicases previously implicated in the unwinding of G-quadruplex structures, FANCJ, WRN and BLM. Transcriptional profiling of DT40 mutants reveals that FANCJ coordinates two independent mechanisms to maintain epigenetic stability near G4 DNA motifs that are dependent on either REV1 or on the WRN and BLM helicases, suggesting a model in which efficient in vivo replication of G-quadruplexes often requires the established 5'-3'-helicase activity of FANCJ acting in concert with either a specialized polymerase or helicase operating in the opposite polarity.

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Epigenesis, GeneticG-QuadruplexesAnimalsAntigens, CDCell LineChromatinDNADNA HelicasesFanconi Anemia Complementation Group ProteinsHumansMutationNuclear ProteinsNucleotide MotifsNucleotidyltransferasesReceptors, Cell SurfaceRecQ HelicasesAntigens, CDBloom syndrome proteinChromatinDNADNA HelicasesFanconi Anemia Complementation Group ProteinsNuclear ProteinsNucleotidyltransferasesReceptors, Cell SurfaceRecQ HelicasesREV1 protein, humanY-Family DNA Polymerases

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PMID22021381
PMCPMC3287192
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