Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Novel approach reveals genomic landscapes of single-strand DNA breaks with nucleotide resolution in human cells

  • Huifen Cao,
  • Lorena Salazar-García,
  • Fan Gao,
  • Thor Wahlestedt,
  • Chun-Lin Wu,
  • Xueer Han,
  • Ye Cai,
  • Dongyang Xu,
  • Fang Wang,
  • Lu Tang,
  • Natalie Ricciardi,
  • DingDing Cai,
  • Huifang Wang,
  • Mario P. S. Chin,
  • James A. Timmons,
  • Claes Wahlestedt,
  • Philipp Kapranov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13602-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Single strand breaks represent the most common form of DNA damage yet no methods to map them in a genome-wide fashion at single nucleotide resolution exist. Here the authors develop such a method and apply to uncover patterns of single-strand DNA “breakome” in different biological conditions.