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Top3-rmi1 dissolve rad51-mediated d loops by a topoisomerase-based mechanism.
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Chen, H., Donnianni, R.A., Handa, N., Deng, S.K., Oh, J., Timashev, L.A., Kowalczykowski, S.C., and Symington, L.S. (2015)
Sae2 promotes DNA damage resistance by removing the Mre11-Rad50-Xrs2 complex from DNA and attenuating Rad53 signaling.
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MCM8-9 complex promotes resection of double-strand break ends by MRE11-RAD50-NBS1 complex.
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Wang, A.T., Kim, T., Wagner, J.E., Conti, B.A., Lach, F.P., Huang, A.L., Molina, H., Sanborn, E.M., Zierhut, H., Cornes, B.K., Abhyankar, A., Sougnez, C., Gabriel, S.B., Auerbach, A.D., Kowalczykowski, S.C., and Smogorzewska, A. (2015)
A dominant mutation in human RAD51 reveals its function in DNA interstrand crosslink repair independent of homologous recombination.
Mol. Cell. 59, 478-490 (published online August 6, 2015 as doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.07.009). PMID: 26253028; PMCID: PMC4529964. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Bell, J.C., Liu, B., and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2015)
Imaging and energetics of single SSB-ssDNA molecules reveal intramolecular condensation and insight into RecOR function.
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Single-molecule visualization of RecQ helicase reveals DNA melting, nucleation, and assembly are required for processive DNA unwinding.
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