New tools to study DNA double-strand break repair pathway choice.

A broken DNA molecule is difficult to repair, highly mutagenic, and extremely cytotoxic. Such breaks can be repaired by homology-independent or homology-directed mechanisms. Little is known about the network that controls the repair pathway choice except that a licensing step for homology-mediated r...

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Main Authors: Daniel Gomez-Cabello, Sonia Jimeno, María Jesús Fernández-Ávila, Pablo Huertas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3796453?pdf=render