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Aura Carreira

Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa CSIC-UAM
Verified email at cbm.csic.es
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Two classes of BRC repeats in BRCA2 promote RAD51 nucleoprotein filament function by distinct mechanisms

A Carreira, SC Kowalczykowski - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
The human tumor suppressor protein BRCA2 plays a key role in recombinational DNA repair.
BRCA2 recruits RAD51 to sites of DNA damage through interaction with eight conserved …

[HTML][HTML] The BRC repeats of BRCA2 modulate the DNA-binding selectivity of RAD51

A Carreira, J Hilario, I Amitani, RJ Baskin, MKK Shivji… - Cell, 2009 - cell.com
The breast cancer susceptibility protein, BRCA2, is essential for recombinational DNA repair.
BRCA2 delivers RAD51 to double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) breaks through interaction with …

Purified human BRCA2 stimulates RAD51-mediated recombination

RB Jensen, A Carreira, SC Kowalczykowski - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Mutation of the breast cancer susceptibility gene, BRCA2, leads to breast and ovarian cancers.
Mechanistic insight into the functions of human BRCA2 has been limited by the difficulty …

DNA damage: RNA-binding proteins protect from near and far

M Dutertre, S Lambert, A Carreira… - Trends in biochemical …, 2014 - cell.com
Recent work, including large-scale genetic and molecular analyses, identified RNA-binding
proteins (RBPs) as major players in the prevention of genome instability. These studies …

Functional Assays for Analysis of Variants of Uncertain Significance in BRCA2

L Guidugli, A Carreira, SM Caputo, A Ehlen… - Human …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Missense variants in the BRCA 2 gene are routinely detected during clinical screening for
pathogenic mutations in patients with a family history of breast and ovarian cancer. These …

[HTML][HTML] Proper chromosome alignment depends on BRCA2 phosphorylation by PLK1

…, A El Marjou, S Zinn-Justin, A Carreira - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The BRCA2 tumor suppressor protein is involved in the maintenance of genome integrity
through its role in homologous recombination. In mitosis, BRCA2 is phosphorylated by Polo-…

[HTML][HTML] In vitro disassembly of a parvovirus capsid and effect on capsid stability of heterologous peptide insertions in surface loops

A Carreira, M Menéndez, J Reguera… - Journal of Biological …, 2004 - ASBMB
We have analyzed the in vitro disassembly of the capsid of the minute virus of mice, and the
stability of capsid chimeras carrying heterologous epitope insertions. Upon heating in a …

[HTML][HTML] A second DNA binding site in human BRCA2 promotes homologous recombination

…, Å Ehlén, C Martin, X Zhang, A Carreira - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
BRCA2 tumour-suppressor protein is well known for its role in DNA repair by homologous
recombination (HR); assisting the loading of RAD51 recombinase at DNA double-strand …

BRCA2 promotes DNA‐RNA hybrid resolution by DDX5 helicase at DNA breaks to facilitate their repair

…, D Loew, S Vagner, A Aguilera, A Carreira - The EMBO …, 2021 - embopress.org
The BRCA2 tumor suppressor is a DNA double‐strand break (DSB) repair factor essential
for maintaining genome integrity. BRCA2‐deficient cells spontaneously accumulate DNA‐…

BRCA2 Hypomorphic Missense Variants Confer Moderate Risks of Breast Cancer

…, H Vrieling, ANA Monteiro, DE Goldgar, A Carreira… - Cancer research, 2017 - AACR
Breast cancer risks conferred by many germline missense variants in the BRCA1 and
BRCA2 genes, often referred to as variants of uncertain significance (VUS), have not been …