Essential Amino Acids for Substrate Binding and Catalysis of Human Flap Endonuclease 1 (∗)

B Shen, JP Nolan, LA Sklar, MS Park - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1996 - ASBMB
Human flap endonuclease 1 (FEN-1) is a member of the structure-specific endonuclease
family and is involved in DNA repair. Eight restrictively conserved amino acids in FEN-1 …

Nfe2l3 (Nrf3) deficiency predisposes mice to T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma

G Chevillard, M Paquet, V Blank - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2011 - ashpublications.org
We have previously generated mice deficient for Nfe213 (NF-E2 p45 related factor 3 or
Nrf3), a member of the cap 'n'collar family of basic-leucine zipper transcription factors. To …

Flap endonuclease 1 is a promising candidate biomarker in gastric cancer and is involved in cell proliferation and apoptosis

K Wang, C Xie, D Chen - International journal of …, 2014 - spandidos-publications.com
As a DNA repair protein, flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1), a structure-specific 5'nuclease, plays
pivotal roles in the maturation of Okazaki fragments, long-patch base excision repair …

[HTML][HTML] Structure of the DNA repair and replication endonuclease and exonuclease FEN-1: coupling DNA and PCNA binding to FEN-1 activity

DJ Hosfield, CD Mol, B Shen, JA Tainer - Cell, 1998 - cell.com
Abstract Flap endonuclease (FEN-1) removes 5′ overhanging flaps in DNA repair and
processes the 5′ ends of Okazaki fragments in lagging strand DNA synthesis. The crystal …

Keap1-null mutation leads to postnatal lethality due to constitutive Nrf2 activation

N Wakabayashi, K Itoh, J Wakabayashi, H Motohashi… - Nature …, 2003 - nature.com
Transcription factor Nrf2 (encoded by Nfe2l2) regulates a battery of detoxifying and
antioxidant genes, and Keap1 represses Nrf2 function. When we ablated Keap1, Keap1 …

Oncogenic NRF2 mutations in squamous cell carcinomas of oesophagus and skin

YR Kim, JE Oh, MS Kim, MR Kang… - The Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Nuclear factor erythroid‐related factor 2 (NRF2) encodes a transcription factor that induces
expression of cytoprotective proteins upon oxidative stress and oncogenic NRF2 mutations …

Structural basis for recruitment of human flap endonuclease 1 to PCNA

S Sakurai, K Kitano, H Yamaguchi, K Hamada… - The EMBO …, 2005 - embopress.org
Flap endonuclease‐1 (FEN1) is a key enzyme for maintaining genomic stability and
replication. Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) binds FEN1 and stimulates its …

[HTML][HTML] Human flap endonuclease structures, DNA double-base flipping, and a unified understanding of the FEN1 superfamily

SE Tsutakawa, S Classen, BR Chapados, AS Arvai… - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
Summary Flap endonuclease (FEN1), essential for DNA replication and repair, removes
RNA and DNA 5′ flaps. FEN1 5′ nuclease superfamily members acting in nucleotide …

Genetic compensation induced by deleterious mutations but not gene knockdowns

A Rossi, Z Kontarakis, C Gerri, H Nolte, S Hölper… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Cells sense their environment and adapt to it by fine-tuning their transcriptome. Wired into
this network of gene expression control are mechanisms to compensate for gene dosage …

Differential DNA repair underlies mutation hotspots at active promoters in cancer genomes

D Perera, RC Poulos, A Shah, D Beck, JE Pimanda… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Promoters are DNA sequences that have an essential role in controlling gene expression.
While recent whole cancer genome analyses have identified numerous hotspots of somatic …