Crosstalk between MSH2–MSH3 and polβ promotes trinucleotide repeat expansion during base excision repair

The expansion of trinucleotide repeats can have detrimental effects and give rise to a range of human diseases. Here the authors report that the mismatch repair and the base excision repair machinery can operate together to promote expansion during lesion removal.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yanhao Lai, Helen Budworth, Jill M. Beaver, Nelson L. S. Chan, Zunzhen Zhang, Cynthia T. McMurray, Yuan Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12465