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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 18.
Published in final edited form as: DNA Repair (Amst). 2006 Jul 10;5(9-10):1136–1145. doi: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2006.05.035

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Model for the mechanism of PATRR-mediated translocation. (a) The PATRR might be cleaved at the tip of the hairpin structure, which corresponds to the center of the palindrome (“center-break mechanism”). (b) Alternatively, the PATRR might be cleaved diagonally at the base of the cruciform (“kesa-giri” refers to the way a Japanese samurai kills an enemy with his sword). Two PATRRs, located on different chromosomes, are indicated by red and blue lines, respectively.