%0 Journal Article %T Transcription infidelity and genome integrity: the parallax view %A Alasdair J.E. Gordon %A Christophe Herman %A Jennifer A. Halliday %A Priya Sivaramakrishnan %J Archive of "Transcription". %D 2018 %R 10.1080/21541264.2018.1491251 %X It was recently shown that removal of GreA, a transcription fidelity factor, enhances DNA break repair. This counterintuitive result, arising from unresolved backtracked RNA polymerase impeding DNA resection and thereby facilitating RecA-loading, leads to an interesting corollary: error-free full-length transcripts and broken chromosomes. Therefore, transcription fidelity may compromise genomic integrity %K Transcription fidelity %K DNA break repair %K GreAB %K DksA %K RecBCD %K Epimutation %K Genomic integrity %K Backtracked RNA polymerase %K DNA resection %K Genetic noise %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6150618/