This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website.
- Table of Contents
Facts about DNA repair protein complementing XP-G cells.
Acts as a cofactor for a DNA glycosylase that removes oxidized pyrimidines from DNA. May also be involved in transcription-coupled fix of this kind of damage, in transcription by RNA polymerase II, and perhaps in other processes too.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | ERCC5 |
| Uniprot: | P28715 |
| Entrez: | 2073 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| XPG/RAD2 endonuclease family |

COFS3; DNA excision repair protein ERCC-5; DNA repair protein complementing XP-G cells; EC 3.1; ERCM2; excision repair cross-complementing rodent repair deficiency, complementationgroup 5; excision repair protein; xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group G protein; Xeroderma pigmentosum group G-complementing protein; xeroderma pigmentosum, complementation group G; XPGC; XPG-complementing protein; XPGUVDR
Mass (kDA):
133.108 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 13q33.1 |
| Sequence: | 13; NC_000013.11 (102846032..102875995) |
Nucleus.





PMID: 8483504 by Scherly D., et al. Complementation of the DNA repair defect in Xeroderma pigmentosum group G cells by a human cDNA related to yeast RAD2.
PMID: 7510366 by Shiomi T., et al. An ERCC5 gene with homology to yeast RAD2 is involved in group G Xeroderma pigmentosum.