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Visualizing and Quantifying Endonuclease-Based Site-Specific DNA Damage
Published on: August 21, 2021
UNC-84: "LINC-ing" chromosome movement and double strand break repair
Nicola Silva1, Verena Jantsch2
1Department of Chromosome Biology, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna Bio Center, University of Vienna, A-1030 Vienna, Austria.
Abstract:
Assaults to our DNA take place at a high frequency and are incompatible with life. In this issue, Lawrence et al. (2016. J. Cell Biol https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201604112) demonstrate that a novel complex links the nucleus with cytoplasmic microtubules for the promotion of DNA repair by homologous recombination.
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