NCBI Accession #
XP_015639321.1
NCBI GenBank Nucleotide #
XM_015783835.1
NCBI Official Full Name
flap endonuclease 1-A
NCBI Official Symbol
LOC4339464
NCBI Official Synonym Symbols
FEN-1; FEN-1a; FEN-1-A; OsFEN-1a; OsJ_19381
NCBI Protein Information
flap endonuclease 1-A
UniProt Synonym Gene Names
FEN-1-A
UniProt Protein Name
Flap endonuclease 1-A
UniProt Synonym Protein Names
Flap structure-specific endonuclease 1-A
UniProt Primary Accession #
Q9SXQ6
UniProt Secondary Accession #
Q0DGD0; Q53WJ9; A0A0P0WQE5
UniProt Related Accession #
Q9SXQ6
UniProt Comments
Structure-specific nuclease with 5'-flap endonuclease and 5'-3' exonuclease activities involved in DNA replication and repair. During DNA replication, cleaves the 5'-overhanging flap structure that is generated by displacement synthesis when DNA polymerase encounters the 5'-end of a downstream Okazaki fragment. It enters the flap from the 5'-end and then tracks to cleave the flap base, leaving a nick for ligation. Also involved in the long patch base excision repair (LP-BER) pathway, by cleaving within the apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) site-terminated flap. Acts as a genome stabilization factor that prevents flaps from equilibrating into structurs that lead to duplications and deletions. Also possesses 5'-3' exonuclease activity on nicked or gapped double-stranded DNA, and exhibits RNase H activity. Also involved in replication and repair of rDNA and in repairing mitochondrial DNA . May be required for cell proliferation.