A neomorphic cancer cell-specific role of MAGE-A4 in trans-lesion synthesis

oleh: Yanzhe Gao, Elizabeth Mutter-Rottmayer, Alicia M. Greenwalt, Dennis Goldfarb, Feng Yan, Yang Yang, Raquel C. Martinez-Chacin, Kenneth H. Pearce, Satoshi Tateishi, Michael B. Major, Cyrus Vaziri

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2016-07-01

Deskripsi

RAD18 is an important protein in trans-lesion synthesis, an error-prone damage-tolerant mode of DNA replication. Here the authors show that MAGE-A4 stabilizes RAD18 and allows cancer cells to maintain on-going DNA synthesis in the face of genotoxic injury.