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A microscopy reporter for cGAMP reveals rare cGAS activation following DNA damage, and a lack of correlation with micronuclear cGAS enrichment

The paper introduces a cGAMP reporter to visualize cGAS activation in response to DNA damage and finds that cGAS activation is limited to a subfraction of cells and not correlated with micronuclear cGAS enrichment.

Rad51 Interaction Analysis Reveals a Functional Interplay Among Recombination Auxiliary Factors

The paper identifies two binding sites on Sfr1 that interact with Rad51 and shows that Swi5-Sfr1 requires Rad55-Rad57 for DNA repair.