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SUBMITTER: Unk I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2268824 | biostudies-other | 2008 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Unk Ildiko I Hajdú Ildikó I Fátyol Károly K Hurwitz Jerard J Yoon Jung-Hoon JH Prakash Louise L Prakash Satya S Haracska Lajos L
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080303 10
Human helicase-like transcription factor (HLTF) is frequently inactivated in colorectal and gastric cancers. Here, we show that HLTF is a functional homologue of yeast Rad5 that promotes error-free replication through DNA lesions. HLTF and Rad5 share the same unique structural features, including a RING domain embedded within a SWI/SNF helicase domain and an HIRAN domain. We find that inactivation of HLTF renders human cells sensitive to UV and other DNA-damaging agents and that HLTF complements ...[more]