ATM Kinase and BLM Helicase: A Regulator and Key Player in Microhomology-Mediated End Joining

Microhomology-mediated end joining (MMEJ) is a class of DNA repair used to join DNA ends following a double-strand break (DSB). It represents an unfavorable and error-prone pathway because it results in deletion of nucleotides between microhomologies, as well as the deletion of one microhomology. Th...

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Main Author: Treister, Daniel
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/146020