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SUBMITTER: Sato K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5159555 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nucleic acids research 20160930 22
The FANCI-FANCD2 (I-D) complex is considered to work with RAD51 to protect the damaged DNA in the stalled replication fork. However, the means by which this DNA protection is accomplished have remained elusive. In the present study, we found that the I-D complex directly binds to RAD51, and stabilizes the RAD51-DNA filament. Unexpectedly, the DNA binding activity of FANCI, but not FANCD2, is explicitly required for the I-D complex-mediated RAD51-DNA filament stabilization. The RAD51 filament sta ...[more]