Investigations

Replication stress is one of the major causes for chromosomal instability which is a hallmark of cancer. Incomplete repair can lead to severe mitotic defects and ultra-fine anaphase bridges (UFBs) are a typical consequence. So far, five different classes of UFBs have been discribed: fragile sites-UFBs, centromeric-UFBs, telomeric-UFBs, homologous recombination-UFBs and rDNA-UFBs, which can be distinguished by their location and the way how they arise. Although previous studies have already proposed ...