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R‐loops cause replication impairment and genome instability during meiosis
Author(s) -
CastellanoPozo Maikel,
GarcíaMuse Tatiana,
Aguilera Andrés
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2012.119
Subject(s) - genome instability , biology , replication (statistics) , genome , genetics , meiosis , dna replication , microbiology and biotechnology , gene , dna , dna damage , virology
R‐loops are harmful structures with a negative impact on transcription and recombination during mitosis, but no information exists for meiosis. We used Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Caenorhabditis elegans THO mutants as a tool to determine the consequences of R‐loops in meiosis. We found that both S. cerevisiae and C. elegans THO mutants show defective meiosis and an impairment of premeiotic replication as well as DNA‐damage accumulation. Importantly, RNase H partially suppressed the replication impairment and the DNA‐damage accumulation. We conclude that R‐loops can form during meiosis causing replication impairment with deleterious results.