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Science 9 January 2004:
Vol. 303. no. 5655, pp. 243 - 246
DOI: 10.1126/science.1093037
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RAD51C Is Required for Holliday Junction Processing in Mammalian Cells

Yilun Liu, Jean-Yves Masson,* Rajvee Shah, Paul O'Regan, Stephen C. West{dagger}

During genetic recombination and the recombinational repair of chromosome breaks, DNA molecules become linked at points of strand exchange. Branch migration and resolution of these crossovers, or Holliday junctions (HJs), complete the recombination process. Here, we show that extracts from cells carrying mutations in the recombination/repair genes RAD51C or XRCC3 have reduced levels of HJresolvase activity. Moreover, depletion of RAD51C from fractionated human extracts caused a loss of branch migration and resolution activity, but these functions were restored by complementation with a variety of RAD51 paralog complexes containing RAD51C. We conclude that the RAD51 paralogs are involved in HJprocessing in human cells.

Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, Hertfordshire EN6 3LD, UK.



* Present address: Laval University Cancer Research Center, Hotel-Dieu de Quebec, 9 McMahon Street, Quebec G1R 2J6, Canada.

{dagger} To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: stephen.west{at}cancer.org.uk

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