Vertebrate cells lacking FEN‐1 endonuclease are viable but hypersensitive to methylating agents and H2O2

Y Matsuzaki, N Adachi, H Koyama - Nucleic acids research, 2002 - academic.oup.com
The structure‐specific FEN‐1 endonuclease has been implicated in various cellular
processes, including DNA replication, repair and recombination. In vertebrate cells …

The acetylatable lysines of human Fen1 are important for endo-and exonuclease activities

E Friedrich-Heineken, G Henneke, E Ferrari… - Journal of molecular …, 2003 - Elsevier
Human Fen1 can be acetylated in vivo and in vitro resulting in reduced endonuclease and
exonuclease activities in vitro. Acetylation occurs at four lysines located at the C terminus of …

[HTML][HTML] Defective flap endonuclease 1 activity in mammalian cells is associated with impaired DNA repair and prolonged S phase delay

Y Shibata, T Nakamura - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2002 - ASBMB
Flap endonuclease 1 (FEN-1) is a 5′–3′ flap exo-/endonuclease that plays an important
role in Okazaki fragment maturation, nonhomologous end joining of double-stranded DNA …

Methylation of FEN1 suppresses nearby phosphorylation and facilitates PCNA binding

Z Guo, L Zheng, H Xu, H Dai, M Zhou… - Nature chemical …, 2010 - nature.com
Abstract Flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1), a structure-specific endo-and exonuclease, has
multiple functions that determine essential biological processes, such as cell proliferation …

[HTML][HTML] The FEN1 L209P mutation interferes with long-patch base excision repair and induces cellular transformation

H Sun, L He, H Wu, F Pan, X Wu, J Zhao, Z Hu… - Oncogene, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Flap endonuclease-1 (FEN1) is a multifunctional, structure-specific nuclease that
has a critical role in maintaining human genome stability. FEN1 mutations have been …

Flap endonuclease 1: a novel tumour suppresser protein

G Henneke, E Friedrich-Heineken… - Trends in biochemical …, 2003 - cell.com
Abstract Flap endonuclease 1 (Fen1) is a key enzyme for maintaining genetic stability in
eukaryotic genomes. Haploinsufficiency of Fen1 leads to the rapid progression of tumours in …

Proliferation Failure and Gamma Radiation Sensitivity of Fen1 Null Mutant Mice at the Blastocyst Stage

E Larsen, C Gran, BE Sæther, E Seeberg… - … and cellular biology, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
Flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1) has been shown to remove 5′ overhanging flap
intermediates during base excision repair and to process the 5′ ends of Okazaki fragments …

Kinetics of endogenous mouse FEN1 in base excision repair

L Kleppa, PO Mari, E Larsen, GF Lien… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The structure specific flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1) plays an essential role in long-patch base
excision repair (BER) and in DNA replication. We have generated a fluorescently tagged …

The FEN‐1 family of structure‐specific nucleases in eukaryotic DNA replication, recombination and repair

MR Lieber - Bioessays, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Unlike the most well‐characterized prokaryotic polymerase, E. Coli DNA pol I, none of the
eukaryotic polymerases have their own 5′ to 3′ exonuclease domain for nick translation …

[HTML][HTML] The 3′-flap pocket of human flap endonuclease 1 is critical for substrate binding and catalysis

LD Finger, MS Blanchard, CA Theimer… - Journal of biological …, 2009 - ASBMB
Flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1) proteins, which are present in all kingdoms of life, catalyze the
sequence-independent hydrolysis of the bifurcated nucleic acid intermediates formed during …