TRANSCRIPTION-MEDIATED ORGANIZATION OF THE REPLICATION INITIATION PROGRAM ACROSS LARGE GENES SETS UP COMMON FRAGILE SITES GENOME-WIDE
Olivier Brison, Sami El-Hilali, Dana Azar, Stéphane Koundrioukoff, Mélanie Schmidt, Viola Nähse, Yan Jaszczyszyn, Anne-Marie Lachagès, Bernard Dutrillaux, Claude Thermes, Michelle Debatisse, Chun-Long Chen
The paper shows that transcription suppresses replication initiation in large genes, leading to delayed replication and instability at common fragile sites.
Nature Communications · Dec 13, 2019Peer-reviewedGenomics