Two classes of BRC repeats in BRCA2 promote RAD51 nucleoprotein filament function by distinct mechanisms

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 26, 2011, Pages 10448-10453

  Carreira, Aura ^a,b   Kowalczykowski, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer; Chromosome stability; DNA break repair; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BRCA2 PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; NUCLEOPROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BRC REPEAT; BRC1 REPEAT; BRC2 REPEAT; BRC3 REPEAT; BRC4 REPEAT; BRC5 REPEAT; BRC6 REPEAT; BRC7 REPEAT; BRC8 REPEAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND; ENZYME ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BRCA2 PROTEIN; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HUMANS; PROTEIN BINDING; RAD52 DNA REPAIR AND RECOMBINATION PROTEIN; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID;

EID: 79960597176     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1106971108     Document Type: Article

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