Protein Helps Distinguish Chromosome Ends From DNA Breaks

Sunday, September 20, 2009 - 02:28 in Biology & Nature

Researchers have demonstrated how human cells protect chromosome ends from misguided repairs that can lead to cancer. The work follows the team's 2007 in vitro demonstration of the role of the hRAP1 protein in preventing chromosome ends from being fused to new DNA breaks.

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