USP3 controls BRCA1 “foci”

USP3 controls BRCA1 “foci”

BRCA1, which is mutated in the familial forms of breast and ovarian cancer, plays important roles in genome stability through its participation in DNA damage response (DDR) following double-stranded breaks (DsBs). BRCA1 activates the checkpoint pathway to retard cell cycle progression and stimulates repair of the DsBs (reviewed in ref. 1). it is recruited to the damaged chromatin through an int...

Minichromosome maintenance complex facilitates the recruitment of BRCA1 onto chromatin and foci formation in A549 cells

Lung cancer is the most frequent cancer and the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Therefore, a better understanding of DNA damage repair in cells might be helpful to treat cancers. The present study was aimed to investigate the potential interaction between breast cancer 1 (BRCA1) and minichromosome maintenance proteins (MCMs) during DNA damage in lung carcinoma A549 cells. The recombina...

RAP80-directed tuning of BRCA1 homologous recombination function at ionizing radiation-induced nuclear foci.

In response to DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), BRCA1 forms biochemically distinct complexes with certain other DNA damage response proteins. These structures, some of which are required for homologous recombination (HR)-type DSB repair, concentrate at distinct nuclear foci that demarcate sites of genome breakage. Polyubiquitin binding by one of these structures, the RAP80/BRCA1 complex, is req...

Tight regulation of ubiquitin -mediated DNA damage response by USP3

BRCA1 foci in normal S-phase nuclei are linked to interphase centromeres and replication of pericentric heterochromatin

Breast cancer-associated protein 1 (BRCA1) forms foci at sites of induced DNA damage, but any significance of these normal S-phase foci is unknown. BRCA1 distribution does not simply mirror or overlap that of replicating DNA; however, BRCA1 foci frequently abut sites of BrdU incorporation, mostly at mid-to-late S phase. Although BRCA1 does not overlap XIST RNA across the inactive X chromosome, ...