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Junyeop Lee 1,3, Keewon Sung 2,3, So Young Joo 1, Jun-Hyeon Jeong 1, Seong Keun Kim 2,* & Hyunsook Lee 1,*
1Department of Biological Sciences & IMBG, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, South Korea. 2Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, South Korea. 3These authors contributed equally: Junyeop Lee, Keewon Sung.
*Corresponding author.
Abstract
BRCA2-deficient cells precipitate telomere shortening upon collapse of stalled replication forks. Here, we report that the dynamic interaction between BRCA2 and telomeric G-quadruplex (G4), the non-canonical four-stranded secondary structure, underlies telomere replication homeostasis. We find that the OB-folds of BRCA2 binds to telomeric G4, which can be an obstacle during replication. We further demonstrate that BRCA2 associates with G-triplex (G3)-derived intermediates, which are likely to form during direct interconversion between parallel and non-parallel G4. Intriguingly, BRCA2 binding to G3 intermediates promoted RAD51 recruitment to the telomere G4. Furthermore, MRE11 resected G4-telomere, which was inhibited by BRCA2. Pathogenic mutations at the OB-folds abrogated the binding with telomere G4, indicating that the way BRCA2 associates with telomere is innate to its tumor suppressor activity. Collectively, we propose that BRCA2 binding to telomeric G4 remodels it and allows RAD51-mediated restart of the G4-driven replication fork stalling, simultaneously preventing MRE11-mediated breakdown of telomere.
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