PALB2

Gene Information
  • Official Symbol: PALB2
  • Official Name: partner and localizer of BRCA2
  • Aliases and Previous Symbols: N/A
  • Entrez ID: 79728
  • UniProt: Q86YC2
  • Interactions: BioGRID
  • PubMed articles: Open PubMed
  • OMIM: Open OMIM
Function Summary
  • Entrez Summary: This gene encodes a protein that may function in tumor suppression. This protein binds to and colocalizes with the breast cancer 2 early onset protein (BRCA2) in nuclear foci and likely permits the stable intranuclear localization and accumulation of BRCA2. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008].
  • UniProt Summary: Plays a critical role in homologous recombination repair (HRR) through its ability to recruit BRCA2 and RAD51 to DNA breaks (PubMed:16793542, PubMed:19423707, PubMed:19369211, PubMed:22941656, PubMed:24141787, PubMed:28319063). Strongly stimulates the DNA strand-invasion activity of RAD51, stabilizes the nucleoprotein filament against a disruptive BRC3-BRC4 polypeptide and helps RAD51 to overcome the suppressive effect of replication protein A (RPA) (PubMed:20871615). Functionally cooperates with RAD51AP1 in promoting of D-loop formation by RAD51 (PubMed:20871616). Serves as the molecular scaffold in the formation of the BRCA1-PALB2-BRCA2 complex which is essential for homologous recombination (PubMed:19369211). Via its WD repeats is proposed to scaffold a HR complex containing RAD51C and BRCA2 which is thought to play a role in HR-mediated DNA repair (PubMed:24141787). Essential partner of BRCA2 that promotes the localization and stability of BRCA2 (PubMed:16793542). Also enables its recombinational repair and checkpoint functions of BRCA2 (PubMed:16793542). May act by promoting stable association of BRCA2 with nuclear structures, allowing BRCA2 to escape the effects of proteasome-mediated degradation (PubMed:16793542). Binds DNA with high affinity for D loop, which comprises single- stranded, double-stranded and branched DNA structures (PubMed:20871616). May play a role in the extension step after strand invasion at replication-dependent DNA double-strand breaks; together with BRCA2 is involved in both POLH localization at collapsed replication forks and DNA polymerization activity (PubMed:24485656). {ECO:0000269|PubMed:16793542, ECO:0000269|PubMed:19369211, ECO:0000269|PubMed:19423707, ECO:0000269|PubMed:20871615, ECO:0000269|PubMed:20871616, ECO:0000269|PubMed:22941656, ECO:0000269|PubMed:24141787, ECO:0000269|PubMed:24485656, ECO:0000269|PubMed:28319063}.

Pfam Domains GO Terms


CRISPR Data

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

Essentiality in NALM6
  • Essentiality Rank: 1429
  • Expression level (log2 read counts): 5.18

Expression Distribution

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