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SUBMITTER: Yuan W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6520018 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science advances 20190515 5
The R-loop, composed of a DNA-RNA hybrid and the displaced single-stranded DNA, regulates diverse cellular processes. However, how cellular R-loops are recognized remains poorly understood. Here, we report the discovery of the evolutionally conserved ALBA proteins (AtALBA1 and AtALBA2) functioning as the genic R-loop readers in <i>Arabidopsis</i>. While AtALBA1 binds to the DNA-RNA hybrid, AtALBA2 associates with single-stranded DNA in the R-loops in vitro. In vivo, these two proteins interact a ...[more]