Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Smc5/6 functions with Sgs1-Top3-Rmi1 to complete chromosome replication at natural pause sites

  • Sumedha Agashe,
  • Chinnu Rose Joseph,
  • Teresa Anne Clarisse Reyes,
  • Demis Menolfi,
  • Michele Giannattasio,
  • Anja Waizenegger,
  • Barnabas Szakal,
  • Dana Branzei

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22217-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Smc5/6, part of the structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) family, plays roles in genome structural integrity. Here the authors reveal that Smc5/6 acts jointly with Top3 within the STR complex to mediate DNA replication completion at genomic natural pausing sites (NPSs).