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Checkpoint Signaling and DNA Repair: BRCA2
 
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Protein : BRCA2

SwissProt Accessions | Entrez Gene links

Connectivity 102
Notes Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 have been linked to an elevated risk of young onset breast cancer which has been demonstrated to be due to the inheritance of dominant susceptibility genes conferring a high risk of the disease. Unlike BRCA1, BRCA2 has not been linked to ovarian cancer. While BRCA1 mutations are typically microinsertions and point mutations, BRCA2 mutations are typically microdeletions. BRCA2 putatively functions as a tumor suppressor gene, however, its exact function has not been well characterized. The similarity of, and functional analysis of, BRCA2 and BRCA1 proteins, suggests that these proteins function in the same genetic pathway. BRCA1 and BRCA2 have transcriptional activation potential and the two proteins are associated with the activation of double-strand break repair and/or homologous recombination. The two proteins have been shown to coexist and colocalize in a biochemical complex.
Hugo ID 1101
Name BRCA2
Description breast cancer 2, early onset
URN urn:agi-llid:675

GO Cellular Component cytoplasm
nucleus
extracellular space
secretory granule

Cell Localization Nucleus
Cytoplasm

GO Biological Process DNA recombination
response to DNA damage stimulus
DNA repair
chromatin remodeling
double-strand break repair via homologous recombination
establishment and/or maintenance of chromatin architecture
mitotic checkpoint
regulation of S phase of mitotic cell cycle
regulation of cell cycle
regulation of transcription

MGI ID 109337

Swiss-Prot Accession  P51587

OMIM ID OMIM:600185
OMIM:114480
OMIM:227660
OMIM:605724
OMIM:260350
OMIM:176807

Alias Brca2
breast cancer 2
RAB163
AW045498
expressed sequence AW045498
FAD1
FANCD1
BRC2
breast cancer 2, early onset
Fanconi anemia, complementation group D1
BRC2_HUMAN
BRCA2 protein
breast cancer II
Breast cancer type 2 susceptibility protein
FAD I
FANCD I
Fanconi anemia, complementing group D1
HGNC:3585

Organism Rattus norvegicus
Mus musculus
Human

Entrez ID  25082
12190
100589
100890
675
114914

RGD ID 2219

Pathway DNA Repair

Unigene ID Rn.103225
Mm.236256
Hs.34012

Group protein binding
nucleic acid binding