Title
Stable interaction between the products of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 tumor suppressor genes in mitotic and meiotic cells
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Cancer Biology
Publication Date
1998-10-17
Document Type
Article
Subjects
Antibodies, Monoclonal; BRCA1 Protein; BRCA2 Protein; Breast Neoplasms; Cell Line; Cell Nucleus; Chromosome Mapping; DNA Damage; DNA Repair; DNA Replication; DNA-Binding Proteins; Female; *Genes, BRCA1; *Genes, Tumor Suppressor; Humans; Meiosis; Mitosis; Neoplasm Proteins; Ovarian Neoplasms; Rad51 Recombinase; Transcription Factors; Transfection; Tumor Cells, Cultured; Zygote
Disciplines
Cancer Biology | Neoplasms
Abstract
BRCA1 and BRCA2 account for most cases of familial, early onset breast and/or ovarian cancer and encode products that each interact with hRAD51. Results presented here show that BRCA1 and BRCA2 coexist in a biochemical complex and colocalize in subnuclear foci in somatic cells and on the axial elements of developing synaptonemal complexes. Like BRCA1 and RAD51, BRCA2 relocates to PCNA+ replication sites following exposure of S phase cells to hydroxyurea or UV irradiation. Thus, BRCA1 and BRCA2 participate, together, in a pathway(s) associated with the activation of double-strand break repair and/or homologous recombination. Dysfunction of this pathway may be a general phenomenon in the majority of cases of hereditary breast and/or ovarian cancer.
Source
Mol Cell. 1998 Sep;2(3):317-28.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Molecular cell
Related Resources
PubMed ID
9774970
Repository Citation
Chen, Junjie; Silver, Daniel P.; Walpita, Deepika; Cantor, Sharon B.; Gazdar, Adi F.; Tomlinson, Gail; Couch, Fergus J.; Weber, Barbara L.; Ashley, Terry; Livingston, David M.; and Scully, Ralph, "Stable interaction between the products of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 tumor suppressor genes in mitotic and meiotic cells" (1998). Cancer Biology Publications and Presentations. 7.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/cancerbiology_pp/7