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Stephen C. West
Researcher at Francis Crick Institute
Publications - 262
Citations - 31040
Stephen C. West is an academic researcher from Francis Crick Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Holliday junction & DNA. The author has an hindex of 99, co-authored 257 publications receiving 29430 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen C. West include London Research Institute & Newcastle University.
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Molecular views of recombination proteins and their control
TL;DR: The efficient repair of double-strand breaks in DNA is critical for the maintenance of genome stability and cell survival, especially in replicating cells, in which it plays a major role in tumour avoidance.
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DNA interstrand crosslink repair and cancer.
Andrew J. Deans,Stephen C. West +1 more
TL;DR: Understanding how the FA pathway links nucleases, helicases and other DNA-processing enzymes should lead to more targeted uses of ICL-inducing agents in cancer treatment and could provide novel insights into drug resistance.
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Human Rad51 Protein Promotes ATP-Dependent Homologous Pairing and Strand Transfer Reactions In Vitro
TL;DR: The results establish hRad51 as a functional homolog of RecA, but indicate that the human protein and its bacterial counterpart differ in their ability to promote extensive strand transfer.
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Role of BRCA2 in control of the RAD51 recombination and DNA repair protein.
Adelina A. Davies,Jean-Yves Masson,Michael J. McIlwraith,Alicja Z. Stasiak,Andrzej Stasiak,Ashok R. Venkitaraman,Stephen C. West +6 more
TL;DR: It is shown that BRCA2 plays a dual role in regulating the actions of RAD51, a protein essential for homologous recombination and DNA repair, which may be a key event leading to genomic instability and tumorigenesis in patients predisposed to breast and ovarian cancers.
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Role of the human rad51 protein in homologous recombination and double-stranded-break repair
Peter Baumann,Stephen C. West +1 more
TL;DR: The isolation of yeast and human RecA homologues shows that homologous recombination and recombinational repair have been conserved throughout evolution and the goal is now to identify other factors involved in recombinational Repair and to define their roles in this essential process.