MUS81

• Official Symbol: MUS81
• Official Name: MUS81 structure-specific endonuclease subunit
• Aliases and Previous Symbols: N/A
• Entrez ID: 80198
• UniProt: Q96NY9
• Interactions: BioGRID
• PubMed articles: Open PubMed
• OMIM: Open OMIM

• Entrez Summary: This gene encodes a structure-specific endonuclease which belongs to the XPF/MUS81 endonuclease family and plays a critical role in the resolution of recombination intermediates during DNA repair after inter-strand cross-links, replication fork collapse, and DNA double-strand breaks. The encoded protein associates with one of two closely related essential meiotic endonuclease proteins (EME1 or EME2) to form a complex that processes DNA secondary structures. It contains an N-terminal DEAH helicase domain, an excision repair cross complementation group 4 (ERCC4) endonuclease domain, and two tandem C-terminal helix-hairpin-helix domains. Mice with a homozygous knockout of the orthologous gene have significant meiotic defects including the failure to repair a subset of DNA double strand breaks. [provided by RefSeq, Jun 2017].
• UniProt Summary: Interacts with EME1 and EME2 to form a DNA structure- specific endonuclease with substrate preference for branched DNA structures with a 5'-end at the branch nick. Typical substrates include 3'-flap structures, replication forks and nicked Holliday junctions. May be required in mitosis for the processing of stalled or collapsed replication forks. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:11741546, ECO:0000269|PubMed:12374758, ECO:0000269|PubMed:12686547, ECO:0000269|PubMed:12721304, ECO:0000269|PubMed:14617801, ECO:0000269|PubMed:15805243, ECO:0000269|PubMed:17289582, ECO:0000269|PubMed:19595721, ECO:0000269|PubMed:19596235}.

Pfam Domains GO Terms

Compound Hit Most Correlated Genes in Chemogenomics Tissues where Essential in the Avana Dataset (DepMap 20Q1)

• Essentiality Rank: 6585
• Expression level (log2 read counts): 5.61

Expression Distribution

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MUS81 Expression in NALM6 Cells: 5.61