RAD50 (DNA repair protein RAD50) is a gene that drives cell growth when it is altered. The public catalogues list it as a drug target, an oncogene driver, a biomarker and a DNA repair gene, and clinical evidence ties its variants to diagnosis, prognosis or drug response. Tied to Ovarian cancer, Breast cancer, Colorectal cancer and 2 more. This dossier gathers the 0 products (0 approved), 0 trials, 0 pathways and 0 resistance routes in the corpus that involve it, with external identifiers so it can be joined to UniProt, ChEMBL, Open Targets and the rest of biology.
Component of the MRN complex, which plays a central role in double-strand break (DSB) repair, DNA recombination, maintenance of telomere integrity and meiosis. The MRN complex is involved in the repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) via homologous recombination (HR), an error-free mechanism which primarily occurs during S and G2 phases. The complex (1) mediates the end resection of damaged DNA, which generates proper single-stranded DNA, a key initial steps in HR, and is (2) required for the recruitment of other repair factors and efficient activation of ATM and ATR upon DNA damage. The MRN complex possesses single-strand endonuclease activity and double-strand-specific 3'-5' exonuclease activity, which are provided by MRE11, to initiate end resection, which is required for single-strand invasion and recombination. Within the complex, RAD50 is both required to bind DNA ends and hold them in close proximity and regulate the activity of MRE11. RAD50 provides an ATP-dependent control of MRE11 by positioning DNA ends into the MRE11 active site: ATP-binding induces a large structural change from an open form with accessible MRE11 nuclease sites into a closed form. Location: Nucleus; Chromosome, telomere; Chromosome (UniProt). Locus 5q31.1 (HGNC).
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Query for this target: (TITLE:"RAD50" OR ABSTRACT:"RAD50" OR TITLE:"RAD50 double strand break repair protein" OR ABSTRACT:"RAD50 double strand break repair protein" OR TITLE:"DNA repair protein RAD50" OR ABSTRACT:"DNA repair protein RAD50" OR TITLE:"hRad50" OR ABSTRACT:"hRad50" OR TITLE:"RAD50-2" OR ABSTRACT:"RAD50-2") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about RAD50, not a curated reading list.
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