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Università della Svizzera italiana

Crossover or non-crossover outcomes : tailored processing of homologous recombination intermediates

Sanchez, Aurore ; Reginato, Giordano ; Cejka, Petr

In: Current opinion in genetics & development, 2021, vol. 71, p. 39-47

DNA breaks may arise accidentally in vegetative cells or in a programmed manner in meiosis. The usage of a DNA template makes homologous recombination potentially error-free, however, recombination is not always accurate. Cells possess a remarkable capacity to tailor processing of recombination intermediates to fulfill a particular need. Vegetatively growing cells aim to maintain genome...

Université de Fribourg

The yeast cell wall protein Pry3 inhibits mating through highly conserved residues within the CAP domain

Cottier, Stéphanie ; Darwiche, Rabih ; Meyenhofer, Felix ; Debelyy, Mykhaylo O. ; Schneiter, Roger

In: Biology Open, 2020, vol. 9, no. 6, p. bio053470

Members of the CAP/SCP/TAPS superfamily have been implicated in many different physiological processes, including pathogen defense, sperm maturation and fertilization. The mode of action of this class of proteins, however, remains poorly understood. The genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes three CAP superfamily members, Pry1-3. We have previously shown that Pry1 function is required...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Main steps in DNA double-strand break repair : An introduction to homologous recombination and related processes

Ranjha, Lepakshi ; Howard, Sean Michael ; Cejka, Petr

In: Chromosoma, 2018, vol. 127, no. 2 (June), p. 187–214

DNA double-strand breaks arise accidentally upon exposure of DNA to radiation, chemicals or result from faulty DNA metabolic processes. DNA breaks can also be introduced in a programmed manner, such as during the maturation of the immune system, meiosis or cancer chemo- or radiotherapy. Cells have developed a variety of repair pathways, which are fine-tuned to the specific needs of a cell....

Università della Svizzera italiana

Regulatory control of DNA end resection by Sae2 phosphorylation

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

In: Nature communications, 2018, vol. 9, p. 4016

DNA end resection plays a critical function in DNA double-strand break repair pathway choice. Resected DNA ends are refractory to end-joining mechanisms and are instead channeled to homology-directed repair. Using biochemical, genetic, and imaging methods, we show that phosphorylation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Sae2 controls its capacity to promote the Mre11-Rad50-Xrs2 (MRX) nuclease to...

Università della Svizzera italiana

A meiotic XPF-ERCC1-like complex recognizes joint molecule recombination intermediates to promote crossover formation

De Muyt, Arnaud ; Pyatnitskaya, Alexandra ; Andréani, Jessica ; Ranjha, Lepakshi ; Laureau, Raphaëlle ; Fernandez-Vega, Ambra ; Holoch, Daniel ; Girard, Elodie ; Govin, Jérome ; Margueron, Raphaël ; Couté, Yohann ; Cejka, Petr ; Guérois, Raphaël ; Borde, Valérie

In: Genes and development, 2018, vol. 32, no. 3-4, p. 283-296

Meiotic crossover formation requires the stabilization of early recombination intermediates by a set of proteins and occurs within the environment of the chromosome axis, a structure important for the regulation of meiotic recombination events. The molecular mechanisms underlying and connecting crossover recombination and axis localization are elusive. Here, we identified the ZZS...