The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the RAD51 protein family. RAD51 family members are evolutionarily conserved proteins essential for DNA repair by homologous recombination. This protein has been shown to form a stable heterodimer with the family member RAD51C, which further interacts with the other family members, such as RAD51, XRCC2, and XRCC3. Overexpression of this gene was found to cause cell cycle G1 delay and cell apoptosis, which suggested a role of this protein in sensing DNA damage. At least three alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms have been observed.[3]
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↑Miller KA, Yoshikawa DM, McConnell IR, Clark R, Schild D, Albala JS (March 2002). "RAD51C interacts with RAD51B and is central to a larger protein complex in vivo exclusive of RAD51". J. Biol. Chem. 277 (10): 8406–11. doi:10.1074/jbc.M108306200. PMID11744692.
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Bonaldo MF, Lennon G, Soares MB (1996). "Normalization and subtraction: two approaches to facilitate gene discovery". Genome Res. 6 (9): 791–806. doi:10.1101/gr.6.9.791. PMID8889548.
Albala JS, Thelen MP, Prange C, Fan W, Christensen M, Thompson LH, Lennon GG (1997). "Identification of a novel human RAD51 homolog, RAD51B". Genomics. 46 (3): 476–9. doi:10.1006/geno.1997.5062. PMID9441753.
Havre PA, Rice MC, Noe M, Kmiec EB (1998). "The human REC2/RAD51B gene acts as a DNA damage sensor by inducing G1 delay and hypersensitivity to ultraviolet irradiation". Cancer Res. 58 (20): 4733–9. PMID9788630.
Peng L, Rice MC, Kmiec EB (1998). "Analysis of the human RAD51L1 promoter region and its activation by UV light". Genomics. 54 (3): 529–41. doi:10.1006/geno.1998.5536. PMID9878257.
Schoenmakers EF, Huysmans C, Van de Ven WJ (1999). "Allelic knockout of novel splice variants of human recombination repair gene RAD51B in t(12;14) uterine leiomyomas". Cancer Res. 59 (1): 19–23. PMID9892177.
Ingraham SE, Lynch RA, Kathiresan S, Buckler AJ, Menon AG (1999). "hREC2, a RAD51-like gene, is disrupted by t(12;14) (q15;q24.1) in a uterine leiomyoma". Cancer Genet. Cytogenet. 115 (1): 56–61. doi:10.1016/S0165-4608(99)00070-9. PMID10565301.
Lio YC, Mazin AV, Kowalczykowski SC, Chen DJ (2003). "Complex formation by the human Rad51B and Rad51C DNA repair proteins and their activities in vitro". J. Biol. Chem. 278 (4): 2469–78. doi:10.1074/jbc.M211038200. PMID12427746.
Yokoyama H, Kurumizaka H, Ikawa S, Yokoyama S, Shibata T (2003). "Holliday junction binding activity of the human Rad51B protein". J. Biol. Chem. 278 (4): 2767–72. doi:10.1074/jbc.M210899200. PMID12441335.