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Shortened telomeres in murine scid cells expressing mutant hRAD54 coincide with reduction in recombination at telomeres.
Mutation research - 15 Oct 2005
Al-Wahiby Suliman, Wong Hiu-Pak, Slijepcevic P
Abstract excerpt
Murine severe combined immunodeficiency (scid) cells are characterized by defective Prkdc (DNA-PKcs), one of the key genes involved in the repair of DNA double-strand breaks. Interestingly, scid mice are not null mutants and their cells are likely to show low DNA-PKcs activity. Prkdc is also involved in telomere maintenance and in contrast to mice genetically engineered to lack Prkdc (i.e. null mutants), which...
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