The MRE11 complex: starting from the endsTravis H Stracker
Institute for Research in Biomedicine Barcelona, C Baldiri Reixac 10, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 12:90-103. 2011
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Taking the time to make important decisions: the checkpoint effector kinases Chk1 and Chk2 and the DNA damage responseTravis H Stracker
Molecular Biology, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, NY, USA
DNA Repair (Amst) 8:1047-54. 2009
..This review will focus on recent advances in our understanding of the structure, regulation, and functions of the effector kinases in the DDR, as well as their potential roles in human disease...
Artemis and nonhomologous end joining-independent influence of DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit on chromosome stabilityTravis H Stracker
Molecular Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY 10065, USA
Mol Cell Biol 29:503-14. 2009
..Our results reveal a role for DNA-PKcs in the maintenance of S/G(2)-phase chromosome stability and in the induction of cell cycle checkpoint responses...
Chk2 suppresses the oncogenic potential of DNA replication-associated DNA damageTravis H Stracker
Molecular Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY 10021, USA
Mol Cell 31:21-32. 2008
..These data suggest that Chk2 suppresses the oncogenic potential of DNA damage arising during S and G2 phases of the cell cycle...
Roles for NBS1 in alternative nonhomologous end-joining of V(D)J recombination intermediatesLudovic Deriano
Department of Pathology, The Helen L and Martin S Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine at the Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine and, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
Mol Cell 34:13-25. 2009
..These data demonstrate that the MRE11 complex functions at two distinct levels, regulating repair pathway choice (likely through enhancing the stability of DNA end complexes) and participating in alternative NHEJ of coding ends...
The carboxy terminus of NBS1 is required for induction of apoptosis by the MRE11 complexTravis H Stracker
Molecular Biology and Genetics, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, New York 10021, USA
Nature 447:218-21. 2007
..Instead, the defects observed in Nbs1(DeltaC/DeltaC) result from impaired phosphorylation of ATM targets including SMC1 and the proapoptotic factor, BID...
Cell cycle- and DNA repair pathway-specific effects of apoptosis on tumor suppressionSteven S Foster
Molecular Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, NY 10021, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:9953-8. 2012
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The Mre11 complex and the metabolism of chromosome breaks: the importance of communicating and holding things togetherTravis H Stracker
Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY 10021, USA
DNA Repair (Amst) 3:845-54. 2004
..Further genetic analysis of the Mre11 complex will be an invaluable tool for dissecting its function on an organismal level and determining its role in the prevention of malignancy...
Working together and apart: the twisted relationship of the Mre11 complex and Chk2 in apoptosis and tumor suppressionTravis H Stracker
Molecular Biology, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, New York 10021, USA
Cell Cycle 7:3618-21. 2008
..2,3) We found that the checkpoint kinase Chk2 is crucial for the suppression of a diverse array of tumor types in Mre11 complex mutants and uncovered multiple roles for the Mre11 complex in apoptotic signaling in parallel to Chk2.(4,5)...
The cellular response to DNA double-strand breaks: defining the sensors and mediatorsJohn H J Petrini
Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY 10021, USA
Trends Cell Biol 13:458-62. 2003
..We discuss the possible role of the Mre11 complex as a primary damage sensor and the complex relationship between DNA damage sensors, transducers and mediators...