Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

3-1999

Journal Title or Book Title

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volume

10

Issue

3

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Authors retain the copyright and the right to reprint the manuscript in any publication of which authors serve as an author or editor, subject to proper citation of the manuscript in MBoC and where feasible the presence of a link to the original publication of the manuscript in MBoC. Also, authors are permitted to post the MBoC PDF of their articles (and/or supplemental material) on their personal websites or in an online institutional repository provided there appears always the proper citation of the manuscript in MBoC and a link to the original publication of the manuscript in MBoC dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.10.3.665

DOI

10.1091/mbc.10.3.665

Abstract

Bloom syndrome (BS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by growth deficiency, immunodeficiency, genomic instability, and the early development of cancers of many types. BLM, the protein encoded by BLM, the gene mutated in BS, is localized in nuclear foci and absent from BS cells. BLM encodes a DNA helicase, and proteins from three missense alleles lack displacement activity. BLM transfected into BS cells reduces the frequency of sister chromatid exchanges and restores BLM in the nucleus. Missense alleles fail to reduce the sister chromatid exchanges in transfected BS cells or restore the normal nuclear pattern. BLM complements a phenotype of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae sgs1 top3 strain, and the missense alleles do not. This work demonstrates the importance of the enzymatic activity of BLM for its function and nuclear localization pattern.

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