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Aliases | SMC1B , SMC1BETA, SMC1L2, structural maintenance of chromosomes 1B | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
External IDs | OMIM: 608685; MGI: 2154049; HomoloGene: 13786; GeneCards: SMC1B; OMA:SMC1B - orthologs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Structural maintenance of chromosomes protein 1B (SMC-1B) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SMC1B gene. [5] [6] [7] SMC proteins engage in chromosome organization and can be broken into 3 groups based on function which are cohesins, condensins, and DNA repair. [8] [9] [10] SMC-1B belongs to a family of proteins required for chromatid cohesion and DNA recombination during meiosis and mitosis. [7] [11] SMC1B protein appears to participate with other cohesins REC8, STAG3 and SMC3 in sister-chromatid cohesion throughout the whole meiotic process in human oocytes. [12]
SMC1B is essential for meiosis in which it has 3 main roles. [13] SMC1B is known to be involved in the fusion of chromosomes during meiosis in both homologous and non-homologous chromosomes. [13] SMC1B develops the axial elements (AE) found in synaptonemal complexes in association with other cohesin proteins REC8 and SMC3 as well as AE proteins SCP2 and SCP3. [14] [15] Sister chromatid cohesion in meiosis is supplied by SMC1B. [13] SMC1B can also protect telomeres from damage, something that SMC1A has not been shown to be capable of. [16] Additionally, in somatic cells SMC1B associates with SMC3 and RAD21 in a mitotic cohesin complex which had been thought to only include SMC1α. [17] [18] Depletion of SMC1B in somatic cells showed dysregulation of some gene expression. [17]
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a DNA virus and the most prevalent sexually transmitted infection. [19] HPV-16 and HPV-18 are responsible for most cases of cervical cancer from HPV. [20] SMC1B has increased expression in HPV(+) cases. [21] HPV recruits SMC1 along with a transcriptional factor, CTCF, to enable replication of the virus's genome. SMC1 is crucially important to the regulation of the virus life cycle. [20]
SMC1B protects genetic stability from ultraviolet and infrared radiation. [18] Altered expression of SMC1B can cause DNA damage repair to fail that then causes genome instability. [18] Expression of SMC1B higher or lower than normal is associated with certain cancers. Meiotic subunits STAG3 and REC8 are also expressed with SMC1B in cancers. [22] High expression of SMC1B can be associated with pancreatic cancers and ovarian cancer, while low expression increases the risk of cancer progression due to low genetic stability. [18]