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Friedreich's ataxia–associated GAA repeats induce replication-fork reversal and unusual molecular junctions

Friedreich's ataxia–associated GAA repeats induce replication-fork reversal and unusual molecular... Friedreich's ataxia is one of several hereditary neurodegenerative disorders caused expansion of trinucleotide repeats, but the mechanism of their genomic propagation is unknown. A new plasmid-based system to probe human replicative intermediates reveals that GAA/TTC repeats interfere with replication, thus suggesting that repeat expansion occurs by postreplicative mechanisms. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Springer Journals

Friedreich's ataxia–associated GAA repeats induce replication-fork reversal and unusual molecular junctions

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 by Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved.
Subject
Life Sciences; Life Sciences, general; Biochemistry, general; Protein Structure; Membrane Biology; Biological Microscopy
ISSN
1545-9993
eISSN
1545-9985
DOI
10.1038/nsmb.2520
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Abstract

Friedreich's ataxia is one of several hereditary neurodegenerative disorders caused expansion of trinucleotide repeats, but the mechanism of their genomic propagation is unknown. A new plasmid-based system to probe human replicative intermediates reveals that GAA/TTC repeats interfere with replication, thus suggesting that repeat expansion occurs by postreplicative mechanisms.

Journal

Nature Structural & Molecular BiologySpringer Journals

Published: Mar 3, 2013

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