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SUBMITTER: Larsen DH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4962910 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Larsen Dorthe H DH Hari Flurina F Clapperton Julie A JA Gwerder Myriam M Gutsche Katrin K Altmeyer Matthias M Jungmichel Stephanie S Toledo Luis I LI Fink Daniel D Rask Maj-Britt MB Grøfte Merete M Lukas Claudia C Nielsen Michael L ML Smerdon Stephen J SJ Lukas Jiri J Stucki Manuel M
Nature cell biology 20140727 8
Chromosome breakage elicits transient silencing of ribosomal RNA synthesis, but the mechanisms involved remained elusive. Here we discover an in trans signalling mechanism that triggers pan-nuclear silencing of rRNA transcription in response to DNA damage. This is associated with transient recruitment of the Nijmegen breakage syndrome protein 1 (NBS1), a central regulator of DNA damage responses, into the nucleoli. We further identify TCOF1 (also known as Treacle), a nucleolar factor implicated ...[more]