PMID- 20969866 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20101220 LR - 20161125 IS - 1873-3468 (Electronic) IS - 0014-5793 (Linking) VI - 584 IP - 22 DP - 2010 Nov 19 TI - Menin stimulates homology-directed DNA repair. PG - 4531-6 LID - 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.10.032 [doi] AB - Menin, the nuclear protein encoded by the Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) gene, acts as a tumor suppressor. It interacts with a large number of proteins involved in chromatin modification, transcription, cell cycle checkpoint and DNA repair, though its exact function is not clear. We report that in human cells menin stimulates homology-directed (HD) DNA repair induced by the rare endonuclease I-SceI and it accumulates with Chk1 at the site of the double strand break. In addition, menin and Chk1 interact in vivo. Deletion of the first 228 amino acids of menin impairs the interaction with Chk1 and the ability to stimulate HD repair, suggesting that the complex menin-Chk1 on the damaged chromatin facilitates homologous recombination. CI - Copyright (c) 2010 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Gallo, A AU - Gallo A AD - Istituto di Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare, Universita Federico II, 80131 Napoli, Italy. agallo@unina.it FAU - Agnese, S AU - Agnese S FAU - Esposito, I AU - Esposito I FAU - Galgani, M AU - Galgani M FAU - Avvedimento, V E AU - Avvedimento VE LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20101020 PL - England TA - FEBS Lett JT - FEBS letters JID - 0155157 RN - 0 (MEN1 protein, human) RN - 0 (Proto-Oncogene Proteins) RN - EC 2.7.- (Protein Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (CHEK1 protein, human) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Checkpoint Kinase 1) SB - IM MH - Checkpoint Kinase 1 MH - DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded MH - DNA Repair/*genetics MH - Gene Expression Regulation MH - HEK293 Cells MH - HeLa Cells MH - Humans MH - Protein Kinases/metabolism MH - Proto-Oncogene Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism MH - *Recombination, Genetic MH - Sequence Deletion EDAT- 2010/10/26 06:00 MHDA- 2010/12/21 06:00 CRDT- 2010/10/26 06:00 PHST- 2010/08/05 00:00 [received] PHST- 2010/09/30 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2010/10/12 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2010/10/26 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/10/26 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2010/12/21 06:00 [medline] AID - S0014-5793(10)00837-9 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.10.032 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - FEBS Lett. 2010 Nov 19;584(22):4531-6. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.10.032. Epub 2010 Oct 20.