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Methods Enzymol 2017 Jan 01;591:211-232. doi: 10.1016/bs.mie.2017.03.018.
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Xenopus laevis as Model System to Study DNA Damage Response and Replication Fork Stability.

Sannino V , Pezzimenti F , Bertora S , Costanzo V .


Abstract
Although many players of the DNA damage response and DNA repair have been identified in several systems their biochemical role is still poorly understood. The use of the Xenopus laevis egg extract cell-free system allowed biochemical dissection of DNA replication and cell cycle events in a complex biological context. The possibility of manipulating the protein content by using protein depletion procedures makes egg extract a powerful system to study proteins whose inactivation results in cellular lethality. The egg extract has been increasingly used to study DNA damage response and the coordination of DNA replication with DNA repair. The recent development of advanced imaging techniques based on electron microscopy has allowed the characterization of replication intermediates formed in the absence of essential DNA repair proteins. These studies have been important to understand how cells maintain genome stability under unchallenged and stressful conditions. Here, we present a collection of protocols that have been developed to recapitulate DNA damage response activated by chromosome breakage in egg extract and to isolate replication intermediates for electron microscopy analysis using sperm nuclei or more defined genomic substrates.

PubMed ID: 28645370
Article link: Methods Enzymol


Genes referenced: LOC115919910