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Identifying the Effects of BRCA1 Mutations on Homologous Recombination using Cells that Express Endogenous Wild-type BRCA1
Published on: February 17, 2011
Molecular functions of BRCA1 in the DNA damage response
Ralph Scully1, Anyong Xie, Ganesh Nagaraju
1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. rscully@bidmc.harvard.edu
Abstract:
Ten years ago, a concerted effort from several labs resulted in the cloning of BRCA1, the first of two major hereditary breast/ovarian cancer predisposition genes. Since that time, BRCA1 has been linked to several key nuclear functions connected with the prevention of genomic instability. In particular, BRCA1 functions in concert with Rad51, BRCA2 and other genes to control double strand break repair (DSBR) and homologous recombination. Here, we reassess the role of BRCA1 and its associated proteins in this process.
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