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SUBMITTER: Oliver AW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2750052 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oliver Antony W AW Swift Sally S Lord Christopher J CJ Ashworth Alan A Pearl Laurence H LH
EMBO reports 20090717 9
The breast cancer 2, early onset protein (BRCA2) is central to the repair of DNA damage by homologous recombination. BRCA2 recruits the recombinase RAD51 to sites of damage, regulates its assembly into nucleoprotein filaments and thereby promotes homologous recombination. Localization of BRCA2 to nuclear foci requires its association with the partner and localizer of BRCA2 (PALB2), mutations in which are associated with cancer predisposition, as well as subtype N of Fanconi anaemia. We have dete ...[more]