Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

BRCA2 suppresses replication stress-induced mitotic and G1 abnormalities through homologous recombination

  • Weiran Feng,
  • Maria Jasin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00634-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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BRCA2 mutations promote tumour formation while also paradoxically causing cell lethality. Here the authors generate conditional BRCA2 loss in a non-transformed human mammary cell line and see increased replication stress due to under-replication of DNA.