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Insights into Fanconi Anaemia from the structure of human FANCE.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jan 2007
Nookala Ravi K, Hussain Shobbir, Pellegrini Luca
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Fanconi Anaemia (FA) is a cancer predisposition disorder characterized by spontaneous chromosome breakage and high cellular sensitivity to genotoxic agents. In response to DNA damage, a multi-subunit assembly of FA proteins, the FA core complex, monoubiquitinates the downstream FANCD2 protein. The FANCE protein plays an essential role in the FA process of DNA repair as the FANCD2-binding component of the FA core...
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