[HTML][HTML] FEN1 ensures telomere stability by facilitating replication fork re-initiation

A Saharia, DC Teasley, JP Duxin, B Dao… - Journal of biological …, 2010 - ASBMB
Telomeres are terminal repetitive DNA sequences whose stability requires the coordinated
actions of telomere-binding proteins and the DNA replication and repair machinery …

Significance of base excision repair to human health

S Zhao, S Tadesse, D Kidane - International review of cell and molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Oxidative and alkylating DNA damage occurs under normal physiological conditions and
exogenous exposure to DNA damaging agents. To counteract DNA base damage, cells …

Single-molecule FRET unveils induced-fit mechanism for substrate selectivity in flap endonuclease 1

F Rashid, PD Harris, MS Zaher, MA Sobhy, LI Joudeh… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Human flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1) and related structure-specific 5'nucleases precisely
identify and incise aberrant DNA structures during replication, repair and recombination to …

Synergistic antitumor effect of combined paclitaxel with FEN1 inhibitor in cervical cancer cells

L He, H Yang, S Zhou, H Zhu, H Mao, Z Ma, T Wu… - DNA repair, 2018 - Elsevier
Studies on cervical cancer are urgently required to improve clinical outcomes. As a major
anticancer drug for cervical cancer, paclitaxel has been used for many years in clinical …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] DNA damage repair machinery and HIV escape from innate immune sensing

C Brégnard, M Benkirane, N Laguette - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Viruses have been long known to perturb cell cycle regulators and key players of the DNA
damage response to benefit their life cycles. In the case of the human immunodeficiency …

PRMT1 is critical to FEN1 expression and drug resistance in lung cancer cells

L He, Z Hu, Y Sun, M Zhang, H Zhu, L Jiang, Q Zhang… - DNA repair, 2020 - Elsevier
The up-regulation of PRMT1 is critical to the cell growth and cancer progression of lung
cancer cells. In our research, we found that PRMT1 is important to the DNA repair ability and …

[HTML][HTML] Acetylation of Dna2 Endonuclease/Helicase and Flap Endonuclease 1 by p300 Promotes DNA Stability by Creating Long Flap Intermediates 2

L Balakrishnan, J Stewart, P Polaczek… - Journal of biological …, 2010 - ASBMB
Flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1) and Dna2 endonuclease/helicase (Dna2) sequentially
coordinate their nuclease activities for efficient resolution of flap structures that are created …

[HTML][HTML] Flap endonuclease 1 endonucleolytically processes RNA to resolve R-Loops through DNA base excision repair

EE Laverde, AA Polyzos, PP Tsegay, M Shaver… - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1) is an essential enzyme that removes RNA primers and base
lesions during DNA lagging strand maturation and long-patch base excision repair (BER). It …

5-Fluorouracil mediated anti-cancer activity in colon cancer cells is through the induction of Adenomatous Polyposis Coli: Implication of the long-patch base excision …

D Das, R Preet, P Mohapatra, SR Satapathy… - DNA repair, 2014 - Elsevier
Colorectal cancer (CRC) patients with APC mutations do not benefit from 5-FU therapy. It
was reported that APC physically interacts with POLβ and FEN1, thus blocking LP-BER via …