General

Clark, A.J., and A.D. Margulies. 1965. Isolation and characterization of recombination-deficient mutants of Escherichia coli K12. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 53:451–459.

Haber, J.E. 2014. Genome Stability: DNA Repair and Recombination. New York: Garland Science, Taylor & Francis Group.

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Szostak, J.W., T.L. Orr-Weaver, R.J. Rothstein, and F.W. Stahl. 1983. The double-strand-break repair model for recombination. Cell 33:25–35.

Recombination as a DNA Repair Process

Cox, M.M., M.F. Goodman, K.N. Kreuzer, D.J. Sherratt, S.J. Sandler, and K.J. Marians. 2000. The importance of repairing stalled replication forks. Nature 404:37–41.

Kuzminov, A. 2001. DNA replication meets genetic exchange: Chromosomal damage and its repair by homologous recombination. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98:8461–8468.

Michel, B., H. Boubakri, Z. Baharoglu, M. LeMasson, and R. Lestini. 2007. Recombination proteins and rescue of arrested replication forks. DNA Repair 6:967–980.

Enzymatic Machines in Bacterial Recombinational DNA Repair

Cox, M.M. 2007. Regulation of bacterial RecA function. Crit. Rev. Biochem. Mol. Biol. 42:41–63.

Duderstadt, K.E., R. Reyes-Lamothe, A. van Oijen, and D.J. Sherratt. 2013. Replication fork dynamics. Cold Spring Harb. Perspect. Biol. 6(1):a010157.

Lusetti, S.L., and M.M. Cox. 2002. The bacterial RecA protein and the recombinational DNA repair of stalled replication forks. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 71:71–100.

Homologous Recombination in Eukaryotes

deMassy, B. 2013. Initiation of meiotic recombination: How and where? Conservation and specificities among eukaryotes. Annu. Rev. Genet. 47:563–599.

Filippo, J.S., P. Sung, and H. Klein. 2008. Mechanism of eukaryotic homologous recombination. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 77:229–257.

Sugawara, N., and J.E. Haber. 2006. Repair of DNA double strand breaks: In vivo biochemistry. Methods Enzymol. 408:416–429.

Sung, P. 2005. Mediating repair. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 12:213–214.

Symington, L.S., and J. Gautier. 2011. Double-strand break end resection and repair pathway choice. Annu. Rev. Genet. 45:247–271.

Zickler, D., and N. Kleckner. 1999. Meiotic chromosomes: Integrating structure and function. Annu. Rev. Genet. 33:603–754.

Nonhomologous End Joining

Aniukwu, J., M.S. Glickman, and S. Shuman. 2008. The pathways and outcomes of mycobacterial NHEJ depend on the structure of the broken DNA ends. Genes Dev. 22:512–527.

Gu, J.F., and M.R. Lieber. 2008. Mechanistic flexibility as a conserved theme across 3 billion years of nonhomologous DNA end-joining. Genes Dev. 22:411–415.

Lieber, M.R. 2008. The mechanism of human nonhomologous DNA end joining. J. Biol. Chem. 283:1–5.

Pitcher, R.S., N.C. Brissett, and A. Doherty. 2007. Nonhomologous end joining in bacteria: A microbial perspective. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 61:259–282.

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