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Design and Synthesis of a Reconfigurable DNA Accordion Rack
Published on: August 15, 2018
A Ku bridge over broken DNA
1Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Building 5, Room B1-03, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Abstract:
The Ku heterodimer is essential for the nonhomologous end-joining pathway of DNA double-strand break repair; it both protects the broken ends and recruits some of the many proteins required to complete repair. The recently determined structure of Ku provides insights into how it can both bind to the DNA ends and allow access by the other proteins required to rejoin them.
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