Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Sister chromatid exchanges induced by perturbed replication can form independently of BRCA1, BRCA2 and RAD51

  • Anne Margriet Heijink,
  • Colin Stok,
  • David Porubsky,
  • Eleni Maria Manolika,
  • Jurrian K. de Kanter,
  • Yannick P. Kok,
  • Marieke Everts,
  • H. Rudolf de Boer,
  • Anastasia Audrey,
  • Femke J. Bakker,
  • Elles Wierenga,
  • Marcel Tijsterman,
  • Victor Guryev,
  • Diana C. J. Spierings,
  • Puck Knipscheer,
  • Ruben van Boxtel,
  • Arnab Ray Chaudhuri,
  • Peter M. Lansdorp,
  • Marcel A. T. M. van Vugt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34519-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs) are considered to be products of homologous recombination repair. The authors show that SCEs can arise independently of homologous recombination due to processing of replication intermediates during mitosis.