Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

BRCA2-DSS1 interaction is dispensable for RAD51 recruitment at replication-induced and meiotic DNA double strand breaks

  • Arun Prakash Mishra,
  • Suzanne A. Hartford,
  • Sounak Sahu,
  • Kimberly Klarmann,
  • Rajani Kant Chittela,
  • Kajal Biswas,
  • Albert B. Jeon,
  • Betty K. Martin,
  • Sandra Burkett,
  • Eileen Southon,
  • Susan Reid,
  • Mary E. Albaugh,
  • Baktiar Karim,
  • Lino Tessarollo,
  • Jonathan R. Keller,
  • Shyam K. Sharan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29409-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Mishra et al. have generated mice with a single amino acid substitution in BRCA2, which disrupts its interaction with DSS1 resulting in a severe HR defect. They show the interaction to be dispensable for HR at replication induced and meiotic DSBs.