A timeless but timely connection between replication and recombination.

Borde, Valérie; Lichten, Michael · Cell · 2014

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Initiation of meiotic recombination by DNA double-strand break formation is temporally coordinated with replication. Murakami and Keeney show that this coordination requires recruitment of the Dbf4-dependent kinase to the replication fork by the conserved TIM-TIPIN complex. The same mechanism may regulate other important replication-associated processes.

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