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Ku70:Ku80 complex Overview

GO Annotations consist of four mandatory components: a gene product, a term from one of the three Gene Ontology (GO) controlled vocabularies (Molecular Function, Biological Process, and Cellular Component), a reference, and an evidence code.


Summary
Single-stranded DNA-dependent 3-prime to 5-prime ATP-dependent helicase complex which binds preferentially to fork-like ends of double-stranded DNA in a cell cycle-dependent manner. Required for non-homologous end joining DNA double stranded break repair. Binds to naturally occurring chromosomal ends, and therefore provides chromosomal end protection. Appears to have a role in recruitment of telomerase and CDC13 to the telomere and the subsequent telomere elongation. Required also for telomere recombination to repair telomeric ends in the absence of telomerase.
GO Slim Terms

The yeast GO Slim terms are higher level terms that best represent the major S. cerevisiae biological processes, functions, and cellular components. The GO Slim terms listed here are the broader parent terms for the specific terms to which this gene product is annotated, and thus represent the more general processes, functions, and components in which it is involved.

DNA binding, RNA binding, helicase activity, ion binding, DNA damage response, DNA metabolic process, DNA recombination, DNA repair, chromosome organization, response to stress, telomere organization