DISEASES

Disease-gene associations mined from literature

Literature associating FEN1 and Rothmund-Thomson syndrome

FEN1 [ENSP00000305480]

Flap endonuclease 1; Structure-specific nuclease with 5'-flap endonuclease and 5'- 3' exonuclease activities involved in DNA replication and repair. During DNA replication, cleaves the 5'-overhanging flap structure that is generated by displacement synthesis when DNA polymerase encounters the 5'-end of a downstream Okazaki fragment. It enters the flap from the 5'-end and then tracks to cleave the flap base, leaving a nick for ligation. Also involved in the long patch base excision repair (LP-BER) pathway, by cleaving within the apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) site- terminated flap. Acts as a genome stabilization factor that prevents flaps from equilibrating into structurs that lead to duplications and deletions. Also possesses 5'-3' exonuclease activity on nicked or gapped double-stranded DNA, and exhibits RNase H activity. Also involved in replication and repair of rDNA and in repairing mitochondrial DNA. ECO:0000269|PubMed:10744741, ECO:0000269|PubMed:11986308, ECO:0000269|PubMed:18443037, ECO:0000269|PubMed:20729856, ECO:0000269|PubMed:26751069, ECO:0000269|PubMed:7961795,

Synonyms:  FEN1,  FEN1p,  hFEN1,  F5H1Y3,  I3L3E9 ...

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