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: Received: 16 August 2018 / Approved: 18 August 2018 / Online: 18 August 2018 (03:50:48 CEST)
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Jia, L.; Li, J. Transpositional Recombination and Site-Specific Recombination May Be Initiated by Copy Choice during DNA Synthesis Rather Than Break/Join Mechanism. Preprints2018, 2018080317. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201808.0317.v1
Jia, L.; Li, J. Transpositional Recombination and Site-Specific Recombination May Be Initiated by Copy Choice during DNA Synthesis Rather Than Break/Join Mechanism. Preprints 2018, 2018080317. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201808.0317.v1
Jia, L.; Li, J. Transpositional Recombination and Site-Specific Recombination May Be Initiated by Copy Choice during DNA Synthesis Rather Than Break/Join Mechanism. Preprints2018, 2018080317. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201808.0317.v1
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Jia, L., & Li, J. (2018). Transpositional Recombination and Site-Specific Recombination May Be Initiated by Copy Choice during DNA Synthesis Rather Than Break/Join Mechanism. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201808.0317.v1
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Jia, L. and Jingyun Li. 2018 "Transpositional Recombination and Site-Specific Recombination May Be Initiated by Copy Choice during DNA Synthesis Rather Than Break/Join Mechanism" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201808.0317.v1
Abstract
Types of DNA recombination include homologous recombination and nonhomologous recombination. Homologous DNA recombination is a general term that includes exchange of information between chromatids: (reciprocal) crossing-over, gene conversion, and post-meiotic segregation. Gene conversion is now thought to be a type of non-Mendelian segregation of heterozygous markers near the recombination initiation site. Thus, it includes both gene conversion and post-meiotic segregation previously described. DNA non-HR including transpositional recombination and site-specific recombination. Our understanding of the molecular mechanism by which DNA recombination occurs has significantly increased in the past decades. Currently The synthesis-dependent strand annealing model is now thought to give rise to most or all noncrossovers, with the double-strand-break repair model forming mainly crossovers. The Shapiro model proposed by Dr. J. Shapiro explains the molecular mechanism of transpositional recombination. Site-specific recombination results from another distinct model. We previously proposed a novel theory which can provide a more reasonable and simpler explanation accounting for DNA HR including the 3 classes of recombinogenic events described above. In the new supplementedly molecular model, DNA meiotic recombination can be initiated by a copy choice mechanism, that is, copying part of 1 single-stranded DNA template, followed by DNA polymerase switching to another single-stranded DNA template, and then resuming the following DNA synthesis along the new template. The current review suggests that transpositional recombination and site-specific recombination should be initiated by copy choice during DNA synthesis rather than break/join mechanism. The work indicates that review of DNA nonhomologous recombination are very necessary. The novel theory would challenge earlier models accounting for transpositional recombination and site-specific recombination and would be critical to the understanding of the mechanisms. We hope copy choice initiating DNA nonhomologous recombination will be one of the concepts that are explored. Proper and specific experiments are required to reconstruct the detailed mechanism described here.
Biology and Life Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology
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