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- Title
Maintenance of Yeast Genome Integrity by RecQ Family DNA Helicases.
- Authors
Gupta, Sonia Vidushi; Schmidt, Kristina Hildegard
- Abstract
With roles in DNA repair, recombination, replication and transcription, members of the RecQ DNA helicase family maintain genome integrity from bacteria to mammals. Mutations in human RecQ helicases BLM, WRN and RecQL4 cause incurable disorders characterized by genome instability, increased cancer predisposition and premature adult-onset aging. Yeast cells lacking the RecQ helicase Sgs1 share many of the cellular defects of human cells lacking BLM, including hypersensitivity to DNA damaging agents and replication stress, shortened lifespan, genome instability and mitotic hyper-recombination, making them invaluable model systems for elucidating eukaryotic RecQ helicase function. Yeast and human RecQ helicases have common DNA substrates and domain structures and share similar physical interaction partners. Here, we review the major cellular functions of the yeast RecQ helicases Sgs1 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Rqh1 of Schizosaccharomyces pombe and provide an outlook on some of the outstanding questions in the field.
- Subjects
UNITED States. Bureau of Land Management; DNA helicases; DNA replication; YEAST; GENOMES; HELICASES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES pombe; DNA repair
- Publication
Genes, 2020, Vol 11, Issue 2, p205
- ISSN
2073-4425
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/genes11020205