Activated RNA polymerase II transcriptional coactivator p15 also known as positive cofactor 4 (PC4) or SUB1 homolog is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SUB1gene.[5][6][7] The human SUB1 gene[7] is named after an orthologous gene in yeast.[8]
SUB1 is induced by oxidative stress, and is involved in coordinating cellular responses to DNA strand breaks that arise after oxidative stress[9]. Yeast SUB1 has structural and functional similarities to human alpha-synuclein, a protein that has an important role in Parkinson’s disease.[10] Like SUB1, alpha-synuclein functions in regulating DNA repair including repair of DNA double-strand breaks.
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Wang Z, Roeder RG (April 1998). "DNA topoisomerase I and PC4 can interact with human TFIIIC to promote both accurate termination and transcription reinitiation by RNA polymerase III". Molecular Cell. 1 (5): 749–57. doi:10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80074-X. PMID9660958.
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Overview of all the structural information available in the PDB for UniProt: P53999 (Activated RNA polymerase II transcriptional coactivator p15) at the PDBe-KB.