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Zhuo Yang1, Mengmeng Li1, Qianwen Sun1
1Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences and Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Abstract:
Preventing transcription-replication head-on conflict (HO-TRC)-triggered R-loop formation is essential for maintaining genome integrity in bacteria, plants, and mammals. The R-loop eraser RNase H can efficiently relax HO-TRCs. However, it is not clear how organisms resist HO-TRC-triggered R-loops when RNase H proteins are deficient. By screening factors that may relieve R-loop accumulation in the Arabidopsis atrnh1c mutant, we find that overexpression of the R-loop helicase RHON1 can rescue the defects of aberrantly accumulated HO-TRC-triggered R-loops co-transcriptionally. In addition, we find that RHON1 interacts with and orchestrates the transcriptional activity of plastid-encoded RNA polymerases to release the conflicts between transcription and replication. Our study illustrates that organisms employ multiple mechanisms to escape HO-TRC-triggered R-loop accumulation and thus maintain genome integrity.
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