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ArticleCommunications biology2023

Fanconi anemia associated protein 20 (FAAP20) plays an essential role in homology-directed repair of DNA double-strand breaks.

Anna Palovcak, Fenghua Yuan, Ramiro Verdun, Liang Luo, Yanbin Zhang

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Article in Communications biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anna PalovcakDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.
Fenghua YuanDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.
Ramiro VerdunDepartment of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0530-4807
Liang LuoDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.
Yanbin ZhangDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA. yzhang4@med.miami.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7263-5510
University of Miami · US

Funding

Defining role of Fanconi anemia complementation group A protein in DNA repairR01HL131013 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI ZHANG, YANBIN · 2016 to 2019
$1.5M
Defining role of FANCA in genome instabilityR01HL156958 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI ZHANG, YANBIN · 2021 to 2023
$1.4M
Defining role of FANCA in genome instabilityR56HL131013 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI ZHANG, YANBIN · 2020 to 2020
$475k
DNA processing roles in DNA Double-strand Break repair by Fanconi Anemia sub-complex AG20F31HL151097 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI PALOVCAK, ANNA LOUISE · 2020 to 2022
$89k
NHLBI NIH HHS F31 HL151097NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL131013NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL156958NHLBI NIH HHS R56 HL131013
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

FAAP20 is a Fanconi anemia (FA) protein that associates with the FA core complex to promote FANCD2/FANCI monoubiquitination and activate the damage response to interstrand crosslink damage. Here, we report that FAAP20 has a marked role in homologous recombination at a DNA double-strand break not associated with an ICL and separable from its binding partner FANCA. While FAAP20's role in homologous recombination is not dependent on FANCA, we found that FAAP20 stimulates FANCA's biochemical activity in vitro and participates in the single-strand annealing pathway of double-strand break repair in a FANCA-dependent manner. This indicates that FAAP20 has roles in several homology-directed repair pathways. Like other homology-directed repair factors, FAAP20 loss causes a reduction in nuclear RAD51 Irradiation-induced foci; and sensitizes cancer cells to ionizing radiation and PARP inhibition. In summary, FAAP20 participates in DNA double strand break repair by supporting homologous recombination in a non-redundant manner to FANCA, and single-strand annealing repair via FANCA-mediated strand annealing activity.

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Fanconi AnemiaDNA Breaks, Double-StrandedDNA RepairFanconi Anemia Complementation Group ProteinsHomologous RecombinationHumansRecombinational DNA RepairFAAP20 protein, humanFanconi Anemia Complementation Group Proteins

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PMID37620397
PMCPMC10449828
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