BRCT domain
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| BRCA1 C Terminus (BRCT) domain | |||||||||||
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Structure of an XRCC1 BRCT domain.[1] | |||||||||||
| Identifiers | |||||||||||
| Symbol | BRCT | ||||||||||
| Pfam | PF00533 | ||||||||||
| InterPro | IPR001357 | ||||||||||
| SCOP2 | 1cdz / SCOPe / SUPFAM | ||||||||||
| CDD | cd00027 | ||||||||||
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BRCA1 C Terminus (BRCT) domain is a family of evolutionarily related proteins. It is named after the C-terminal domain of BRCA1, a DNA-repair protein that serves as a marker of breast cancer susceptibility.
The BRCT domain is found predominantly in proteins involved in cell cycle checkpoint functions responsive to DNA damage,[2] for example as found in the breast cancer DNA-repair protein BRCA1. The domain is an approximately 100 amino acid tandem repeat, which appears to act as a phospho-protein binding domain.[3]