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Characterization of the Human Homologue of RAD54: A Gene Located on Chromosome 1p32 at a Region of High Loss of Heterozygosity in Breast Tumors

Debora Rasio, Yoshiki Murakumo, David Robbins, Tim Roth, Aaron Silver, Massimo Negrini, Carl Schmidt, John Burczak, Richard Fishel and Carlo M. Croce
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DOI:  Published June 1997
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A search of the Human Genome Sciences database of expressed sequence-tagged DNA fragments, for sequences containing homology to known yeast DNA recombination and repair genes, yielded a cDNA fragment with high homology to RAD54. Here we describe the complete cDNA sequence and the characterization of the genomic locus coding for the human homologue of the yeast RAD54 gene (hRAD54). The yeast RAD54 belongs to the RAD52 epistasis group and appears to be involved in both DNA recombination and repair. The hRAD54 gene maps to chromosome 1p32 in a region of frequent loss of heterozygosity in breast tumors and encodes a protein of Mr 93,000 that displays 52% identity to the yeast RAD54 protein. The hRAD54 protein sequence additionally contains all seven of the consensus segments of a superfamily of proteins with presumed or proven DNA helicase activity. Mutations in genes with consensus helicase homology have been found in cancer-prone syndromes such as xeroderma pigmentosum and Bloom syndrome as well as Werner's syndrome, in which patients age prematurely, and the X-linked mental retardation with α-thalassemia syndrome, ATR-X. We have examined the hRAD54 gene in several breast tumors and breast tumor cell lines and, although the gene region appears to be deleted in several tumors, at present we have found no coding sequence mutations.

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  • ↵1 This work was supported by Outstanding Investigator Grant CA39860 (to C. M. C.) and NIH Grants CA56542 and CA57007 (to R. F.).

  • ↵2 These authors contributed equally to this work.

  • ↵3 To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Kimmel Cancer Institute and Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, 233 South 10th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. Phone: (215) 503-1345; Fax: (215) 923-1098; E-mail: rfishel@hendrix.jci.tju.edu.

  • Received October 18, 1996.
  • Accepted May 12, 1997.
  • ©1997 American Association for Cancer Research.
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Characterization of the Human Homologue of RAD54: A Gene Located on Chromosome 1p32 at a Region of High Loss of Heterozygosity in Breast Tumors
Debora Rasio, Yoshiki Murakumo, David Robbins, Tim Roth, Aaron Silver, Massimo Negrini, Carl Schmidt, John Burczak, Richard Fishel and Carlo M. Croce
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Characterization of the Human Homologue of RAD54: A Gene Located on Chromosome 1p32 at a Region of High Loss of Heterozygosity in Breast Tumors
Debora Rasio, Yoshiki Murakumo, David Robbins, Tim Roth, Aaron Silver, Massimo Negrini, Carl Schmidt, John Burczak, Richard Fishel and Carlo M. Croce
Cancer Res June 15 1997 (57) (12) 2378-2383;
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