RAD51 protects abasic sites to prevent replication fork breakage Hanthi et al. found that RAD51 recognizes and binds to abasic sites. Together with BRCA2, RAD51 prevents the accumulation of abasic site-induced replicative DNA gaps (caused by DNA methylation, oxidat...

Excited to share my first co-first author paper! We uncovered a conserved role for RAD51/BRCA2 in protecting abasic sites at replication forks from MRE11 cleavage.
#ssDNA gaps, #DNMT1, #POLθ, #Cryo-EM of #RAD51 bound to AP sites, and much more! Check it out!