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A yeast recombination assay to characterize human BRCA1 missense variants of unknown pathological significance (Articolo in rivista)
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- A yeast recombination assay to characterize human BRCA1 missense variants of unknown pathological significance (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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- 2009-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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- Caligo MA; Bonatti F; Guidugli L; Aretini P; Galli A. (literal)
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- Sezione Genetica Oncologica Divisione di Patologia Dipartimento di Oncologia Universita` di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Laboratorio di Terapia Genica e Molecolare, Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy (literal)
- Titolo
- A yeast recombination assay to characterize human BRCA1 missense variants of unknown pathological significance (literal)
- Abstract
- The BRCA1 tumor suppressor gene is found
mutated in familial breast cancer. Although many of the
mutations are clearly pathological because they give rise
to truncated proteins, several missense variants of
uncertain pathological consequences have been identified.
A novel functional assay to screen for BRCA1
missense variants in a simple genetic system could be
very useful for the identification of potentially deleterious
mutations. By using two prediction computer programs,
Sorting Intolerant from Tolerant (SIFT) and Polymorphism
Phenotyping (PolyPhen), seven nonsynonymous
missense BRCA1 variants likely disrupting the gene
function were selected as potentially deleterious. The
budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S. cerevisiae) was
used to test these cancer-related missense mutations for
their ability to affect cell growth and homologous
recombination (HR) at the HIS3 and ADE2 loci. The
variants localized in the BRCA1 C-Terminus (BRCT)
domain did not show any growth inhibition when
overexpressed in agreement with previous results. Overexpression
of either wild-type BRCA1 or two neutral
missense variants did not increase yeast HR but when
cancer-related variants were overexpressed a significant
increase in recombination was observed. Results clearly
showed that this genetic system can be useful to
discriminate between neutral and deleterious BRCA1
missense variants. (literal)
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