The protein encoded by this gene shares similarity with Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rad52, a protein important for DNA double-strand break repair and homologous recombination. This gene product was shown to bind single-stranded DNA ends, and mediate the DNA-DNA interaction necessary for the annealing of complementary DNA strands. It was also found to interact with DNA recombination protein RAD51, which suggested its role in RAD51 related DNA recombination and repair. A pseudogene of this gene is present on chromosome 2. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. Additional alternatively spliced transcript variants of this gene have been described, but their full-length nature is not known.
Background References
1. Jalan M. et. al. Emerging Roles of RAD52 in Genome Maintenance. Cancers (Basel). 2019 Jul
2. Malacaria E. et. al. Rad52 prevents excessive replication fork reversal and protects from nascent strand degradation. Nat Commun. 2019 Mar
Western blot analysis of RAD52 on different lysates with Rabbit anti-RAD52 antibody (HA500094) at 1/1,000 dilution.
Lane 1: HeLa cell lysate Lane 2: HL-60 cell lysate Lane 3: THP-1 cell lysate
Lysates/proteins at 20 µg/Lane.
Predicted band size: 46 kDa Observed band size: 46 kDa
Exposure time: 2 minutes; ECL: K1801;
4-20% SDS-PAGE gel.
Proteins were transferred to a PVDF membrane and blocked with 5% NFDM/TBST for 1 hour at room temperature. The primary antibody (HA500094) at 1/1,000 dilution was used in 5% NFDM/TBST at 4℃ overnight. Goat Anti-Rabbit IgG - HRP Secondary Antibody (HA1001) at 1/50,000 dilution was used for 1 hour at room temperature.
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