Dbait treatment prior to irradiation impaired foci formation of Nbs1, 53BP1 and Rad51 at DNA damage sites and inhibited non-homologous end joining as well as homologous recombination.
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We also tested two mutants that disrupt known phosphorylation sites, S23A [47] and T138A (part of an S/T-Q sequence, a predicted PI3-like kinase substrate), but neither of these mutants were significantly impaired from focus formation.
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Data from nine participants were excluded because of missing data or because they were deemed, at the time of data collection, to be too impaired to focus on the research tasks.
ES cells transfected with a plasmid driving the expression of a myc-tagged Aurora-A showed impaired RAD51 foci formation upon X-ray treatment, while eliciting a normal γ-H2AX foci induction.
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Consistently, overexpression of USP15 in MIAPACA2 and PK9 cells promoted BARD1/BRCA1 foci formation upon PARP inhibitor treatment (Supplementary Fig. 7g i), while depletion of USP15 in PANC1 cells impaired BARD1/BRCA1 foci formation (Supplementary Fig. 7j).
FANCD1/BRCA2 down-regulation impaired Rad51 foci formation in HRR (Fig. 6 a, b).
Similarly, human cord blood CD34+ cells transduced with BCR/ABL retroviral vectors showed impaired FANCD2 foci formation, whereas FANCD2 monoubiquitination in these cells was unaffected.
