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HELLS

Lymphoid-specific helicase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the HELLS gene.[1][2][3]

This gene encodes a lymphoid-specific helicase. Other helicases function in processes involving DNA strand separation, including replication, repair, recombination, and transcription. This protein is thought to be involved with cellular proliferation and may play a role in leukemogenesis. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been described, but their biological validity has not been determined.[3]

References

References

  1. Geiman TM, Durum SK, Muegge K (Feb 1999). “Characterization of gene expression, genomic structure, and chromosomal localization of Hells (Lsh)”. Genomics. 54 (3): 477–83. doi:10.1006/geno.1998.5557. PMID 9878251.
  2. Lee DW, Zhang K, Ning ZQ, Raabe EH, Tintner S, Wieland R, Wilkins BJ, Kim JM, Blough RI, Arceci RJ (Aug 2000). “Proliferation-associated SNF2-like gene (PASG): a SNF2 family member altered in leukemia”. Cancer Res. 60 (13): 3612–22. PMID 10910076.
  3. 3.0 3.1 “Entrez Gene: HELLS helicase, lymphoid-specific”.
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