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Truncation of the C-terminus of human MLH1 blocks intracellular stabilization of PMS2 and disrupts DNA mismatch repair.
DNA repair - 7 Mar 2006
Mohd Azizah B, Palama Brett, Nelson Scott E, Tomer Guy, Nguyen Megan, Huo Xin, Buermeyer Andrew B
Abstract excerpt
The human DNA mismatch repair (MMR) protein MLH1 has essential roles in the correction of replication errors and the activation of cell cycle checkpoints and cytotoxic responses to DNA damage that contribute to suppression of cancer risk. MLH1 functions as a heterodimer with the PMS2 protein, and steady state levels of PMS2 are very low in MLH1-deficient cells. Unique to MLH1 among MutL-homolog proteins, and...
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