Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

The BRCA2-MEILB2-BRME1 complex governs meiotic recombination and impairs the mitotic BRCA2-RAD51 function in cancer cells

  • Jingjing Zhang,
  • Manickam Gurusaran,
  • Yasuhiro Fujiwara,
  • Kexin Zhang,
  • Meriem Echbarthi,
  • Egor Vorontsov,
  • Rui Guo,
  • Devon F. Pendlebury,
  • Intekhab Alam,
  • Gabriel Livera,
  • Martini Emmanuelle,
  • P. Jeremy Wang,
  • Jayakrishnan Nandakumar,
  • Owen R. Davies,
  • Hiroki Shibuya

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15954-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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In meiosis, BRCA2 associates to MEILB2 localising at DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). Here, the authors identify BRCA2 and MEILB2- associating protein 1 termed BRME1 to work together in regulating meiotic recombination.