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Small Structural Variations, Large Functional Consequences: Comparative Analysis Reveals Structural Control of Ubiquitylation Site Selection by BRCA1/BARD1.
Sahar Heidari, Caitlin Lightle, Lauren Herrington, Tejas Shah, Fariha Hossain, Faruck Morcos, Susan T Weintraub, Mikaela D Stewart, Hedieh Torabifard
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Sahar HeidariDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080 USA.ORCID 0009-0005-4530-5670 Caitlin LightleBiology Department, Texas Christian University, Forth Worth, TX 76129 USA.
Lauren HerringtonBiology Department, Texas Christian University, Forth Worth, TX 76129 USA.
Tejas ShahDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080 USA.
Fariha HossainDepartment of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080 USA.
Faruck MorcosDepartment of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080 USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6208-1561 Susan T WeintraubDepartment of Biochemistry & Structural Biology, The University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229 USA.
Mikaela D StewartBiology Department, Texas Christian University, Forth Worth, TX 76129 USA.
Hedieh TorabifardDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080 USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0687-6858 Funding
TISSUE CULTURE---COREP30CA054174 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI Lei Zheng · 1991 to 2026
$59.1MComputational Tools to Characterize the Effects of Protein and RNA Variability in Function and InteractionsR35GM133631 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DALLAS · PI Alonso Faruck Morcos · 2019 to 2026
$3.0MComputational framework to investigate the inorganic ion transportersR35GM155106 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DALLAS · PI Hedieh Torabifard · 2024 to 2026
$1.2MDisrupting Protein-Protein Interactions with Self-Assembling MacrocyclesR15GM135900 · NIGMS · TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY · PI SIMANEK, ERIC E, STEWART, MIKAELA · 2019 to 2023
$736kNCI NIH HHS P30 CA054174NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM135900NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM133631NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM155106
6 · The paper itselfAbstract
BRCA1/BARD1 is a chromatin-associated E3 ubiquitin ligase that ubiquitylates histone H2A to coordinate DNA damage repair, transcriptional repression, and genome stability. In
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BARD1BRCA1C. elegansH2Anucleosome bindingubiquitylation
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PMCPMC13345330
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