Single-stranded DNA-binding protein is dynamic, critical to DNA repair
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 11:49
in Biology & Nature
Researchers report that a single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB), once thought to be a static player among the many molecules that interact with DNA, actually moves back and forth along single-stranded DNA, gradually allowing other proteins to repair, recombine or replicate the strands.