Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Regulatory control of DNA end resection by Sae2 phosphorylation

  • Elda Cannavo,
  • Dominic Johnson,
  • Sara N. Andres,
  • Vera M. Kissling,
  • Julia K. Reinert,
  • Valerie Garcia,
  • Dorothy A. Erie,
  • Daniel Hess,
  • Nicolas H. Thomä,
  • Radoslav I. Enchev,
  • Matthias Peter,
  • R. Scott Williams,
  • Matt J. Neale,
  • Petr Cejka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06417-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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It has previously been established that DNA end resection in yeast and in humans is under CDK control. Here the authors explain how phosphorylation regulates the capacity of Sae2 — the yeast orthologue of human CtIP — to promote DNA end resection.