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The motor activity of DNA2 functions as an ssDNA translocase to promote DNA end resection

Levikova, Maryna ; Pinto, Cosimo ; Cejka, Petr

In: Genes and Development, 2017, vol. 31, no. 5, p. 493-502

DNA2 nuclease–helicase functions in DNA replication and recombination. This requires the nuclease of DNA2, while, in contrast, the role of the helicase activity has been unclear. We now show that the motor activity of both recombinant yeast and human DNA2 promotes efficient degradation of long stretches of ssDNA, particularly in the presence of the replication protein A. This degradation is...