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Fatal connections: when DNA ends meet on the nuclear matrix.
Journal of cellular biochemistry. Supplement - 1 Jan 2000
Bode J, Benham C, Ernst E, Knopp A, Marschalek R, Strick R, Strissel P
Abstract excerpt
A damaged nucleus has long been regarded simply as a "bag of broken chromosomes," with the DNA free ends moving around and forming connections with randomly encountered partners. Recent evidence shows this picture to be fundamentally wrong. Chromosomes occupy specific nuclear domains within which only limited movement is possible. In a human diploid nucleus, 6.6 x 10(9) base pairs (bp) of DNA are...
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