The MRE11 complex: starting from the ends.
The maintenance of genome stability depends on the DNA damage response (DDR), which is a functional network comprising signal transduction, cell cycle regulation and DNA repair. The metabolism of DNA double-strand breaks governed by the DDR is important for preventing genomic alterations and sporadic cancers, and hereditary defects in this response cause debilitating human pathologies, including developmental defects and cancer. The MRE11 complex, composed of the meiotic recombination 11 (MRE11), RAD50 and Nijmegen breakage syndrome 1 (NBS1; also known as nibrin) proteins is central to the DDR, and recent insights into its structure and function have been gained from in vitro structural analysis and studies of animal models in which the DDR response is deficient.
Institute for Research in Biomedicine Barcelona, C/ Baldiri Reixac 10, 08028 Barcelona, Spain. travis.stracker@irbbarcelona.org
Travis H
TH
Stracker
John H J
JH
Petrini
D000818:Animals; D053903:DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded; D004260:DNA Repair; D045643:DNA Repair Enzymes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D020027:Pyrococcus furiosus / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism
D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D045643:DNA Repair Enzymes
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