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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-7-6
pubmed:abstractText
Fanconi anemia (FA) is a complex cancer susceptibility disorder associated with DNA repair defects and infertility, yet the precise function of the FA proteins in genome maintenance remains unclear. Here we report that C. elegans FANCD2 (fcd-2) is dispensable for normal meiotic recombination but is required in crossover defective mutants to prevent illegitimate repair of meiotic breaks by nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ). In mitotic cells, we show that DNA repair defects of C. elegans fcd-2 mutants and FA-deficient human cells are significantly suppressed by eliminating NHEJ. Moreover, NHEJ factors are inappropriately recruited to sites of replication stress in the absence of FANCD2. Our findings are consistent with the interpretation that FA results from the promiscuous action of NHEJ during DNA repair. We propose that a critical function of the FA pathway is to channel lesions into accurate, as opposed to error-prone, repair pathways.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1097-4164
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
9
pubmed:volume
39
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
25-35
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-8-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20598602-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:20598602-Caenorhabditis elegans, pubmed-meshheading:20598602-Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:20598602-Cross-Linking Reagents, pubmed-meshheading:20598602-Crossing Over, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:20598602-DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded, pubmed-meshheading:20598602-DNA Repair, pubmed-meshheading:20598602-DNA Replication, pubmed-meshheading:20598602-DNA-Activated Protein Kinase, pubmed-meshheading:20598602-Fanconi Anemia, pubmed-meshheading:20598602-Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group D2 Protein, pubmed-meshheading:20598602-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:20598602-Meiosis, pubmed-meshheading:20598602-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:20598602-Rad51 Recombinase, pubmed-meshheading:20598602-Recombination, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:20598602-Stress, Physiological
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Preventing nonhomologous end joining suppresses DNA repair defects of Fanconi anemia.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Genetics and Biophysics Adriano Buzzati-Traverso, CNR, Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131, Napoli, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't