Publication Date:
2013-05-10
Description:
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Pif1 helicase is the prototypical member of the Pif1 DNA helicase family, which is conserved from bacteria to humans. Here we show that exceptionally potent G-quadruplex unwinding is conserved among Pif1 helicases. Moreover, Pif1 helicases from organisms separated by more than 3 billion years of evolution suppressed DNA damage at G-quadruplex motifs in yeast. The G-quadruplex-induced damage generated in the absence of Pif1 helicases led to new genetic and epigenetic changes. Furthermore, when expressed in yeast, human PIF1 suppressed both G-quadruplex-associated DNA damage and telomere lengthening.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680789/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680789/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Paeschke, Katrin -- Bochman, Matthew L -- Garcia, P Daniela -- Cejka, Petr -- Friedman, Katherine L -- Kowalczykowski, Stephen C -- Zakian, Virginia A -- R01 GM026938/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM041347/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM043265/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2013 May 23;497(7450):458-62. doi: 10.1038/nature12149. Epub 2013 May 8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23657261" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Base Sequence
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Conserved Sequence
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DNA Damage/genetics
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DNA Helicases/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism
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Epigenesis, Genetic
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Evolution, Molecular
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*G-Quadruplexes
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Gene Silencing
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Genetic Complementation Test
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*Genomic Instability
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Humans
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Mutation Rate
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae/*genetics/*metabolism
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/genetics
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Telomere Homeostasis/genetics
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
