Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

ZFP281-BRCA2 prevents R-loop accumulation during DNA replication

  • Yan Wang,
  • Binbin Ma,
  • Xiaoxu Liu,
  • Ge Gao,
  • Zhuanzhuan Che,
  • Menghan Fan,
  • Siyan Meng,
  • Xiru Zhao,
  • Rio Sugimura,
  • Hua Cao,
  • Zhongjun Zhou,
  • Jing Xie,
  • Chengqi Lin,
  • Zhuojuan Luo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31211-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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R-loops are prevalent in mammalian genomes and involved in many fundamental cellular processes. Here, Wang et al. report that ZFP281 cooperates with BRCA2 in preventing R-loop accumulation to facilitate DNA replication in embryonic stem cells.