EXO1 Facilitates MiDAS and Prevents Genome Instability and Cell Death in Ewing Sarcoma
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EWS::FLI1-DHX9 interaction promotes Ewing sarcoma sensitivity to DNA topoisomerase 1 poisons by altering R-loop metabolism.
Joaquin Olmedo-Pelayo, Esperanza Granado-Calle, Daniel Delgado-Bellido, Laura Lobo-Selma, Carmen Jordán-Pérez, Ana T. Monteiro-Amaral, Anna C. Ehlers, Shunya Ohmura, Angel M. Carcaboso, Javier Alonso, Isidro Machado, Antonio Llombart-Bosch, Thomas G.P. Grünewald, Fernando Gómez-Herreros*, Enrique de Álava*. *corresponding authors
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SCAN1 mutant TDP1 blocks the repair of DSB induced by TOP1 activity during gene transcription and promotes genome reorganisations and cell death in quiescent cells
Diana Rubio-Contreras #, Daniel Hidalgo-García #, Carmen Angulo-Jiménez, Esperanza Granado-Calle, Margarita Sabio-Bonilla, Jose F. Ruiz, Fernando Gómez-Herreros # joined first authors
Cell Death and Disease 2025 December
TDP1 suppresses chromosomal translocations and cell death induced by abortive TOP1 activity during gene transcription
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Nature Communications. 2023 Nov
Genome-scale mapping of DNA damage suppressors through phenotypic CRISPR-Cas9 screens
Yichao Zhao, Daniel Tabet, Diana Rubio Contreras, Arne Nedergaard Kousholt, Jochen Weile, Henrique Melo, Lisa Hoeg, Atina G. Coté, Zhen-Yuan Lin, Dheva Setiaputra, Jos Jonkers, Anne-Claude Gingras, Fernando Gómez Herreros, Frederick P. Roth, Daniel Durocher
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Canonical Non-Homologous End-Joining Promotes Genome Mutagenesis and Translocations Induced by Transcription-associated DNA Topoisomerase 2 Activity
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DNA Double Strand Breaks and Chromosomal Translocations Induced by DNA Topoisomerase II
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FUS (fused in sarcoma) is a component of the cellular response to topoisomerase I-induced DNA breakage and transcriptional stress.
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Life Sci Alliance. 2019 Feb
TDP2 suppresses chromosomal translocations induced by DNA topoisomerase II during gene transcription.
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Nature Communications. 2017 Aug
Divergent Requirement for a DNA Repair Enzyme during Enterovirus Infections.
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TDP2 protects transcription from abortive topoisomerase activity and is required for normal neural function.
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Nature Genetics 2014 May
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PARP-1 dependent recruitment of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-associated protein FUS/TLS to sites of oxidative DNA damage.
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TDP2-dependent non-homologous end-joining protects against topoisomerase II-induced DNA breaks and genome instability in cells and in vivo.
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