lmmol · Proteins

DNA endonuclease RBBP8

UniProt Q99708 Organism Homo sapiens Gene CTIP, RBBP8 EC 3.1.-.-

Also known as: CTIP, RBBP8

Function

Endonuclease that cooperates with the MRE11-RAD50-NBN (MRN) complex in DNA-end resection, the first step of double-strand break (DSB) repair through the homologous recombination (HR) pathway. HR is restricted to S and G2 phases of the cell cycle and preferentially repairs DSBs resulting from replication fork collapse. Key determinant of DSB repair pathway choice, as it commits cells to HR by preventing classical non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ). Specifically promotes the endonuclease activity of the MRN complex to clear DNA ends containing protein adducts: recruited to DSBs by NBN following phosphorylation by CDK1, and promotes the endonuclease activity of MRE11 to clear protein-DNA adducts and generate clean double-strand break ends. Functions downstream of the MRN complex and ATM, promotes ATR activation and its recruitment to DSBs in the S/G2 phase facilitating the generation of ssDNA. Component of the BRCA1-RBBP8 complex that regulates CHEK1 activation and controls cell cycle G2/M checkpoints on DNA damage. During immunoglobulin heavy chain class-switch recombination, promotes microhomology-mediated alternative end joining (A-NHEJ) and plays an essential role in chromosomal translocations (By similarity). Binds preferentially to DNA Y-junctions and to DNA substrates with blocked ends and promotes intermolecular DNA bridging.

Classification

Family (Pfam)
PF10482 CtIP_N, PF08573 SAE2
InterPro
CtIP_N, Ctp1_C, RBBP8-like
Functional cluster
Zinc-Finger & Chromatin Regulatory Proteins

Experimental structures · PDB · 4

A predicted model is available from AlphaFold.

Gene Ontology · 17

Disease associations

Neighborhood · nearest proteins

CTIPCtipCtipctipAUNIPNARFHELLS
Nearest neighbours of DNA endonuclease RBBP8: 3 by sequence/function similarity (left); 3 co-cited in the literature (right).

Related proteins · sequence + function similarity

Co-cited proteins · studied together in the literature

Literature · 51 cited papers

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