Treating patients with a drug before surgery greatly reduced the chances of the cancer coming back, a small trial found.

These genes code for proteins that control how often cells divide. However, when a tumor suppressor gene, such as BRCA2, undergoes a mutational change, the protein it codes for won’t function normally ...

Specifically, the researchers found that intact BRCA2 ensures that RAD51—a protein essential for accurate DNA repair—can access repair sites instead of PARP1 and carry out its function.

Cancer cells can somehow tolerate the loss of the BRCA2 pathway, but when the PARP1 protein is inhibited, they die." Ryan Jensen, associate professor of therapeutic radiology and pathology at Yale ...

“Cancer cells can somehow tolerate the loss of the BRCA2 pathway, but when the PARP1 protein is inhibited, they die,” he said. This research was done in partnership with the National Institutes of ...

And research suggests that replacing those protein sources with nonmeat alternatives like legumes, nuts, whole grains and more can improve your health in the long run. Such swaps can also be ...

Ashok Venkitaraman, corresponding author, NUS Centre for Cancer Research, National University of Singapore, told Medical News Today: “[M]ethylglyoxal triggers the destruction of BRCA2 protein ...

Professor Ashworth’s team went on to find that the BRCA2 protein helps to repair a specific type of DNA damage called double-strand breaks. When BRCA2 is faulty, cells introduce mistakes into their ...

One novel observation was that especially in BRCA1-mutation recurrent cancers, the tumor cells often have switched to expressing a specific isoform of the BRCA2 protein's messenger-RNA molecule.

Two mice were chosen for splenectomy and cell fusion on the basis of the specificity for C-terminal BRCA2 protein by using the immune response initial testing strategy. Clonal supernatants were ...

Nonsense or frameshift mutations leading to truncation of the BRCA2 protein are typically considered pathogenic; however, missense mutations resulting in single amino acid substitutions can be ...

“We just wanted to look for differences that changed the function of the protein between primates and humans.” The BRCA2 protein plays a crucial role as a tumor suppressor. It is responsible for ...