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Ensuring the fidelity of recombination in mammalian chromosomes

✍ Scribed by Alan S. Waldman

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
186 KB
Volume
30
Category
Article
ISSN
0265-9247

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Mammalian cells frequently depend on homologous recombination (HR) to repair DNA damage accurately and to help rescue stalled or collapsed replication forks. The essence of HR is an exchange of nucleotides between identical or nearly identical sequences. Although HR fulfills important biological roles, recombination between inappropriate sequence partners can lead to translocations or other deleterious rearrangements and such events must be avoided. For example, the recombination machinery must follow stringent rules to preclude recombination between the many repetitive elements in a mammalian genome that share significant but imperfect homology. This paper takes a conceptual approach in addressing the homology requirements for recombination in mammalian genomes as well as the general strategy used by cells to reject recombination between similar but imperfectly matched sequences. A mechanism of heteroduplex rejection that involves the unwinding of recombination intermediates that may form between mismatched sequences is discussed. BioEssays 30:1163–1171, 2008. Β© 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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