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ReviewNature reviews. Molecular cell biology2025

Nuclear and genome dynamics underlying DNA double-strand break repair.

Irene Chiolo, Matthias Altmeyer, Gaëlle Legube, Karim Mekhail

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Review in Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Epigenetic silencingCancer biology & therapy · 2026
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  6. The Role of Arp2/3 in End-Resection During DNA Double-Strand Break Repair.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2026
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  12. Chromosomal Instability Drives Glioblastoma Heterogeneity and Therapeutic Opportunities.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Irene ChioloDepartment of Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. chiolo@usc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3080-550X
Matthias AltmeyerDepartment of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease, University of Zurich (UZH), Zurich, Switzerland. matthias.altmeyer@uzh.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3780-1170
Gaëlle LegubeMCD, Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), CNRS, Université de Toulouse, UT3, Toulouse, France. gaelle.legube@univ-tlse3.fr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4784-2702
Karim MekhailDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. karim.mekhail@utoronto.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6084-020X

Funding

Roles of nuclear architecture and phase separation in heterochromatin repair dynamicsR01GM117376 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI CHIOLO, IRENE E · 2015 to 2023
$3.3M
Heterochromatin Repair Mechanisms: a Chromatin PerspectiveR01GM157834 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Irene E Chiolo · 2025 to 2026
$903k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM117376NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM157834
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Changes in nuclear shape and in the spatial organization of chromosomes in the nucleus commonly occur in cancer, ageing and other clinical contexts that are characterized by increased DNA damage. However, the relationship between nuclear architecture, genome organization, chromosome stability and health remains poorly defined. Studies exploring the connections between the positioning and mobility of damaged DNA relative to various nuclear structures and genomic loci have revealed nuclear and cytoplasmic processes that affect chromosome stability. In this Review, we discuss the dynamic mechanisms that regulate nuclear and genome organization to promote DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair, genome stability and cell survival. Genome dynamics that support DSB repair rely on chromatin states, repair-protein condensates, nuclear or cytoplasmic microtubules and actin filaments, kinesin or myosin motor proteins, the nuclear envelope, various nuclear compartments, chromosome topology, chromatin loop extrusion and diverse signalling cues. These processes are commonly altered in cancer and during natural or premature ageing. Indeed, the reshaping of the genome in nuclear space during DSB repair points to new avenues for therapeutic interventions that may take advantage of new cancer cell vulnerabilities or aim to reverse age-associated defects.

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Cell NucleusDNA Breaks, Double-StrandedDNA RepairGenomeAnimalsChromatinGenomic InstabilityHumansNeoplasmsChromatin

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PMID40097581
PMCPMC12282718

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