title: The Mre11 complex and ATM: collaborating to navigate S phase.
abstract: Recently, findings regarding a group of cancer predisposition and chromosome instability syndromes, Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS), the ataxia-telangiectasia-like disorder (A-TLD) and ataxia telangiectasia have shed light on the unexpected role of recombinational DNA repair proteins in DNA-damage-dependent cell-cycle regulation. Mutations in the Mre11 complex cause A-TLD and NBS. In addition, functions of the Mre11 complex have been biochemically linked to ATM, the large protein kinase that is defective in ataxia-telangiectasia cells by the observation that Nbs1 is a bona fide substrate of the ATM kinase.
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI 53706, USA. jpetrini@facstaff.wisc.edu
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Petrini
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001260:Ataxia Telangiectasia / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D064007:Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D004249:DNA Damage; D004260:DNA Repair; D004261:DNA Replication; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D004706:Endodeoxyribonucleases; D005090:Exodeoxyribonucleases; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D016196:S Phase / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins
chemical_list: D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins; C576324:ATM protein, human; D064007:Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; D004706:Endodeoxyribonucleases; D005090:Exodeoxyribonucleases; C094191:MRE11 protein, S cerevisiae