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SUBMITTER: Wang W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5795780 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Weibin W Daley James M JM Kwon Youngho Y Krasner Danielle S DS Sung Patrick P
Genes & development 20171201 23-24
The budding yeast Mre11-Rad50-Xrs2 (MRX) complex and Sae2 function together in DNA end resection during homologous recombination. Here we show that the Ku complex shields DNA ends from exonucleolytic digestion but facilitates endonucleolytic scission by MRX with a dependence on ATP and Sae2. The incision site is enlarged into a DNA gap via the exonuclease activity of MRX, which is stimulated by Sae2 without ATP being present. RPA renders a partially resected or palindromic DNA structure suscepti ...[more]