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Diverse dealings of the Werner helicase/nuclease.
Science of aging knowledge environment : SAGE KE - 6 Aug 2003
Cheng Wen-Hsing, Bohr Vilhelm A
Abstract excerpt
The human Werner syndrome is a model for the process of aging. The protein that is mutated in Werner syndrome, WRN, exhibits three catalytic activities: a 3'-to-5' helicase, a 3'-to-5' exonuclease, and an adenosine triphosphatase activity. WRN interacts with a variety of proteins and has been implicated in many aspects of DNA metabolism. A recent paper by Chen et al. published in the August 2003 issue of Aging...
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