Excessive reactive oxygen species induce transcription-dependent replication stress

Excessive oxidative stress is widely perceived as a key factor in cancer progression. Here, the authors reveal that oxidative stress induces transcription-dependent replication fork stalling that appears to be a major source of chromosomal rearrangements found in human cancers.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Martin Andrs, Henriette Stoy, Barbora Boleslavska, Nagaraja Chappidi, Radhakrishnan Kanagaraj, Zuzana Nascakova, Shruti Menon, Satyajeet Rao, Anna Oravetzova, Jana Dobrovolna, Kalpana Surendranath, Massimo Lopes, Pavel Janscak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37341-y