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ArticleThe EMBO journal2004

Mutation of the mouse Rad17 gene leads to embryonic lethality and reveals a role in DNA damage-dependent recombination.

Magda Budzowska, Iris Jaspers, Jeroen Essers, Harm de Waard, Ellen van Drunen, Katsuhiro Hanada, Berna Beverloo, Rudolf W Hendriks, Annelies de Klein, Roland Kanaar and 2 more

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Article in The EMBO journal, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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12 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Magda BudzowskaMGC-Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Center for Biomedical Genetics, Erasmus MC, DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Iris Jaspers
Jeroen Essers
Harm de Waard
Ellen van Drunen
Katsuhiro Hanada
Berna Beverloo
Rudolf W Hendriks
Annelies de Klein
Roland Kanaar
Jan H Hoeijmakers
Alex Maas
Erasmus MC · NLErasmus University Rotterdam · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genetic defects in DNA repair mechanisms and cell cycle checkpoint (CCC) genes result in increased genomic instability and cancer predisposition. Discovery of mammalian homologs of yeast CCC genes suggests conservation of checkpoint mechanisms between yeast and mammals. However, the role of many CCC genes in higher eukaryotes remains elusive. Here, we report that targeted deletion of an N-terminal part of mRad17, the mouse homolog of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe Rad17 checkpoint clamp-loader component, resulted in embryonic lethality during early/mid-gestation. In contrast to mouse embryos, embryonic stem (ES) cells, isolated from mRad17(5'Delta/5'Delta) embryos, produced truncated mRad17 and were viable. These cells displayed hypersensitivity to various DNA-damaging agents. Surprisingly, mRad17(5'Delta/5'Delta) ES cells were able to arrest cell cycle progression upon induction of DNA damage. However, they displayed impaired homologous recombination as evidenced by a strongly reduced gene targeting efficiency. In addition to a possible role in DNA damage-induced CCC, based on sequence homology, our results indicate that mRad17 has a function in DNA damage-dependent recombination that may be responsible for the sensitivity to DNA-damaging agents.

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MutationAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBase SequenceCell CycleCell Cycle ProteinsCell LineDNADNA-Binding ProteinsDNA DamageDNA RepairFemaleFetal DeathGamma RaysGenes, LethalGene TargetingCell Cycle ProteinsDNADNA-Binding ProteinsMutagens

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PMID15297881
PMCPMC516625
OpenAlexW2041482392

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