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BRC-1 acts in the inter-sister pathway of meiotic double-strand break repair.
EMBO reports - 1 Mar 2008
Adamo Adele, Montemauri Paolo, Silva Nicola, Ward Jordan D, Boulton Simon J, La Volpe Adriana
Abstract excerpt
The breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility protein BRCA1 is evolutionarily conserved and functions in DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair through homologous recombination, but its role in meiosis is poorly understood. By using genetic analysis, we investigated the role of the Caenorhabditis elegans BRCA1 orthologue (brc-1) during meiotic prophase. The null mutant in the brc-1 gene is viable, fertile and shows...
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