Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

A cell cycle-dependent BRCA1–UHRF1 cascade regulates DNA double-strand break repair pathway choice

  • Haoxing Zhang,
  • Hailong Liu,
  • Yali Chen,
  • Xu Yang,
  • Panfei Wang,
  • Tongzheng Liu,
  • Min Deng,
  • Bo Qin,
  • Cristina Correia,
  • Seungbaek Lee,
  • Jungjin Kim,
  • Melanie Sparks,
  • Asha A. Nair,
  • Debra L. Evans,
  • Krishna R. Kalari,
  • Pumin Zhang,
  • Liewei Wang,
  • Zhongsheng You,
  • Scott H. Kaufmann,
  • Zhenkun Lou,
  • Huadong Pei

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10201
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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BRCA1 is a key regulator of DNA double-strand break repair, functioning to promote homologous recombination and repress non-homologous end-joining. Here the authors show that the ubiquitin ligase UHRF1 is recruited to breaks by BRCA1, where it targets RIF1 and thereby facilitates recombination.