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Multiple roles of the proliferating cell nuclear antigen: DNA replication, repair and cell cycle control
1Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Università di Pavia, Italy.
Abstract:
The proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), the auxiliary protein of DNA polymerase delta and epsilon, is involved in DNA replication and repair. This protein forms a homotrimeric structure which, encircling DNA, loads the polymerase on the DNA template. A role for PCNA in the cell cycle control is recognised on the basis of the interaction with cyclins, cyclin-dependent kinases (cdks) and the cdk-inhibitor p21 waf1/cip1/sdi1 protein. Association with the growth-arrest and DNA-damage inducible proteins gadd45 and MyD118, further demonstrates the role of PCNA as a component of the cell cycle control apparatus.
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