Nature Communications (May 2016)

RPA and Rad51 constitute a cell intrinsic mechanism to protect the cytosol from self DNA

  • Christine Wolf,
  • Alexander Rapp,
  • Nicole Berndt,
  • Wolfgang Staroske,
  • Max Schuster,
  • Manuela Dobrick-Mattheuer,
  • Stefanie Kretschmer,
  • Nadja König,
  • Thomas Kurth,
  • Dagmar Wieczorek,
  • Karin Kast,
  • M. Cristina Cardoso,
  • Claudia Günther,
  • Min Ae Lee-Kirsch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11752
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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A central antiviral defence is immune recognition of cystolic DNA. Here the authors show that RPA and RAD51, in cooperation with TREX1, function to protect the cytosol from self-DNA.