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Facts about Flap endonuclease 1.
It enters the flap from the 5'-end and then tracks to cleave the flap base, leaving a nick for ligation. Also involved in the long patch base excision repair (LP-BER) pathway, by cleaving within the apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) site-terminated flap.
Human | |
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Gene Name: | FEN1 |
Uniprot: | P39748 |
Entrez: | 2237 |
Belongs to: |
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XPG/RAD2 endonuclease family |
EC 3.1; FEN1; FEN-1; FEN-1hFEN-1; flap structure-specific endonuclease 1DNase IV; Maturation factor 1; maturation factor-1; MF1flap endonuclease 1; RAD2
Mass (kDA):
42.593 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 11q12.2 |
Sequence: | 11; NC_000011.10 (61792911..61797238) |
[Isoform 1]: Nucleus, nucleolus. Nucleus, nucleoplasm. Resides mostly in the nucleoli and relocalizes to the nucleoplasm upon DNA damage.; [Isoform FENMIT]: Mitochondrion.
PMID: 8007985 by Murray J.M., et al. Structural and functional conservation of the human homolog of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe rad2 gene, which is required for chromosome segregation and recovery from DNA damage.
PMID: 7774922 by Hiraoka L.R., et al. Sequence of human FEN-1, a structure-specific endonuclease, and chromosomal localization of the gene (FEN1) in mouse and human.