Spatial chromosome folding and active transcription drive DNA fragility and formation of oncogenic MLL translocations
H. J. Gothe, B. A. M. Bouwman, E. G. Gusmao, R. Piccinno, S. Sayols, O. Drechsel, G. Petrosino, V. Minneker, N. Josipovic, A. Mizi, C. F. Nielsen, E.-M. Wagner, S. Takeda, H. Sasanuma, D. F. Hudson, , V. Roukos
The paper shows that transcription and spatial chromosome folding increase DNA fragility, leading to oncogenic translocations in leukemia.
bioRxiv · Dec 3, 2018Cell Biology