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The primary role of break-induced replication (BIR) is to repair single-ended double-strand breaks (seDSBs) generated at broken replication forks and eroding telomeres. In this study, we demonstrated that when senataxin (SETX), an RNA/DNA helicase, is defective, hyper-recombination using the BIR mechanism is induced at R-loops/hybrids-accumulated double-ended DSBs (deDSBs), uncovering a role for BIR in repair of R-loops/hybrids-associated deDSBs. Intriguingly, the loss of SETX not only triggers non-canonical hyper-end resection requiring RAD52 and XPF, but also stalls Polα-primase-initiated end-fill DNA synthesis due to the accumulation of RNA/DNA hybrids on single-strand DNA (ssDNA) overhangs at deDSBs. This conflict between fill-in DNA synthesis and accumulated hybrids induces PCNA ubiquitination and PIF1 loading, thereby initiating the BIR mechanism at deDSBs. Hyper-resection further enhances PCNA ubiquitination and PIF1 loading, driving BIR-mediated hyper-recombination. Moreover, SETX is synthetic lethal with PIF1, RAD52, and XPF, offering new strategies for targeted treatment of SETX-deficient tumors.
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