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    | Open Access

    Translation actively dislodges stalled transcription elongation complexes (ECs) from damaged DNA, which enables lesion repair and restoration of transcription activity, and coupled ribosomes discriminate between active ECs and stalled ECs, ensuring destruction of only the latter.

    • Jason Woodgate
    • , Hamed Mosaei
    •  & Nikolay Zenkin

  • Article
    | Open Access

    The CIP2A–TOPBP1 complex tethers fragmented chromosomes from micronuclei for asymmetric mitotic inheritance, explaining distinct patterns of chromosome rearrangements in cancers and genomic disorders.

    • Yu-Fen Lin
    • , Qing Hu
    •  & Peter Ly

  • Article
    | Open Access

    A neuron-specific activity-dependent DNA repair mechanism is identified, the impairment of which may lead to neurodevelopmental disorders, neurodegeneration and ageing.

    • Elizabeth A. Pollina
    • , Daniel T. Gilliam
    •  & Michael E. Greenberg

  • Article
    | Open Access

    Multi-modal analysis of genomically unstable ovarian tumours characterizes the contribution of anatomical sites and mutational processes to evolutionary phenotypic divergence and immune resistance mechanisms.

    • Ignacio Vázquez-García
    • , Florian Uhlitz
    •  & Sohrab P. Shah

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    | Open Access

    Endogenous APOBEC3 deaminases generate prevalent mutational signatures in human cancer cells, and APOBEC3A is the main driver of these mutations.

    • Mia Petljak
    • , Alexandra Dananberg
    •  & John Maciejowski

  • Review Article |

    This Review examines the evidence showing that DNA damage is associated with ageing phenotypes, suggesting that it may have a central role as the cause of ageing.

    • Björn Schumacher
    • , Joris Pothof
    •  & Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers

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    Single-stranded, DNA-damage-associated small RNAs generated by a BRCA1–RNA-interference complex promote PALB2–RAD52-mediated DNA repair at transcriptional termination pause sites that contain R-loops and are rich in single-stranded DNA breaks in both quiescent and proliferating cells.

    • Elodie Hatchi
    • , Liana Goehring
    •  & David M. Livingston

  • Article |

    A yeast clonal descendant of an ancient hybridization event is identified and sheds light on the early evolution of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Alpechin lineage and its abundant Saccharomyces paradoxus introgressions.

    • Melania D’Angiolo
    • , Matteo De Chiara
    •  & Gianni Liti

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    Population-specific patterns of genomic mutations and selection of haematopoietic clones in Japanese and European participants predict the divergent rates of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and T cell leukaemia in these populations.

    • Chikashi Terao
    • , Akari Suzuki
    •  & Yoichiro Kamatani

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    | Open Access

    Whole-genome sequencing data from more than 2,500 cancers of 38 tumour types reveal 16 signatures that can be used to classify somatic structural variants, highlighting the diversity of genomic rearrangements in cancer.

    • Yilong Li
    • , Nicola D. Roberts
    •  & Christian von Mering

  • Article |

    Analyses of primary and relapse samples of embryonal tumours with multilayered rosettes provide insights into the molecular mechanisms that underlie the development and opportunities for the treatment of this deadly disease.

    • Sander Lambo
    • , Susanne N. Gröbner
    •  & Marcel Kool

  • Article |

    A genome-wide association study of mosaic loss of chromosome Y (LOY) in UK Biobank participants identifies 156 genetic determinants of LOY, showing that LOY is associated with cancer and non-haematological health outcomes.

    • Deborah J. Thompson
    • , Giulio Genovese
    •  & John R. B. Perry

  • Letter |

    The 53BP1 effector complex shieldin is involved in non-homologous end-joining and immunoglobulin class switching, and acts to protect DNA ends to facilitate the repair of DNA by 53BP1.

    • Sylvie M. Noordermeer
    • , Salomé Adam
    •  & Daniel Durocher

  • Article |

    In Escherichia coli, the control of RNA polymerase backtracking by transcription elongation factors impairs DNA break repair by affecting RecBCD resection and consequently RecA loading at sites far removed from the original DNA break.

    • Priya Sivaramakrishnan
    • , Leonardo A. Sepúlveda
    •  & Christophe Herman

  • Letter |

    DNA repair by break-induced replication begins with the Rad51-mediated invasion of single-stranded DNA into a double-stranded donor template; this study shows that successful recombination between highly mismatched substrates can occur when only five consecutive bases can be paired and that mismatch correction is most efficient near the invading end of the recipient strand.

    • Ranjith Anand
    • , Annette Beach
    •  & James Haber

  • Letter |

    When transcription and replication machineries collide on DNA, they can cause mutations to occur in the area near the collision; these mutations are now shown to include two types—duplications/deletions within the transcription unit and base substitutions in the cis-regulatory element of gene expression.

    • T. Sabari Sankar
    • , Brigitta D. Wastuwidyaningtyas
    •  & Jue D. Wang

  • Letter |

    Maximum-depth sequencing (MDS), a new method of detecting extremely rare variants within a bacterial population, is used to show that mutation rates in Escherichia coli vary across the genome by at least an order of magnitude, and also to uncover mechanisms of antibiotic-induced mutagenesis.

    • Justin Jee
    • , Aviram Rasouly
    •  & Evgeny Nudler

  • Letter |

    A mechanism for the repression of homologous recombination in G1, the stage of the cell cycle preceding replication, is determined; the critical aspects are the interaction between BRCA1 and PALB2–BRCA2, and suppression of DNA-end resection.

    • Alexandre Orthwein
    • , Sylvie M. Noordermeer
    •  & Daniel Durocher

  • Article |

    The mechanism for chromothripsis, “shattered” chromosomes that can be observed in cancer cells, is unknown; here, using live-cell imaging and single-cell sequencing, chromothripsis is shown to occur after a chromosome is isolated into a micronucleus, an abnormal nuclear structure.

    • Cheng-Zhong Zhang
    • , Alexander Spektor
    •  & David Pellman

  • Letter |

    Endogenous RNA transcripts are shown to mediate recombination with yeast chromosomal DNA; as the level of RNAs in the nucleus is quite high, these results may open up new understanding of the plasticity of repair and genome instability mechanisms.

    • Havva Keskin
    • , Ying Shen
    •  & Francesca Storici

  • Article |

    The molecular basis for mating-type determination in the ciliate Paramecium has been elucidated, revealing a novel function for a class of small RNAs — these scnRNAs are typically involved in reprogramming the Paramecium genome during sexual reproduction by recognizing and excising transposable elements, but they are now found to be co-opted to switch off expression of the newly identified mating-type gene mtA by excising its promoter, and to mediate epigenetic inheritance of mating types across sexual generations.

    • Deepankar Pratap Singh
    • , Baptiste Saudemont
    •  & Eric Meyer

  • Article |

    DNA double-stranded breaks (DSBs) are shown to form in greater numbers in yeast cells lacking ZMM proteins, which are traditionally regarded as acting strictly downstream of DSB formation; these findings shed light on how cells balance the beneficial and deleterious outcomes of DSB formation.

    • Drew Thacker
    • , Neeman Mohibullah
    •  & Scott Keeney

  • Letter |

    This paper demonstrates that the mechanism of break-induced replication (BIR) is significantly different from S-phase replication, as it proceeds via a migrating bubble driven by Pif1 helicase, results in conservative inheritance of newly synthesized DNA, and is inherently mutagenic.

    • Natalie Saini
    • , Sreejith Ramakrishnan
    •  & Anna Malkova

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