MUS81 nuclease activity is essential for replication stress tolerance and chromosome segregation in BRCA2-deficient cells

BRCA2-deficient cells fail to complete replication in S-phase, which results in DNA bridges and chromosome mis-segregation at mitosis. Here the authors show that MUS81 helps BRCA2-deficient cells survive replication stress by activating mitotic DNA synthesis and resolving mitotic DNA bridges.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xianning Lai, Ronan Broderick, Valérie Bergoglio, Jutta Zimmer, Sophie Badie, Wojciech Niedzwiedz, Jean-Sébastien Hoffmann, Madalena Tarsounas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15983