Primary Identifier | IPR033310 | Type | Family |
Short Name | Mms4/EME1/EME2 |
description | This entry includes Mms4 from budding yeast, Eme1 from fission yeasts, and EME1/EME2 from animals. They interact with Mus81 to from a complex, which acts as a structure-specific endonuclease that targets branched DNA structures with a 5'-end at the branch nick [, ]. The typical substrates of this complex include 3'-flap structures, replication forks and nicked Holliday junctions [, ].Similar to MUS81-EME1, human MUS81-EME2 cleaves 3'-flaps, replication forks and nicked Holliday junctions, and exhibits limited endonuclease activity with intact Holliday junctions. However, MUS81-EME2 can also cleave a variety of DNA structures including D-loop recombination intermediates and nicked duplex [, ]. |