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Early embryonic lethality due to targeted inactivation of DNA ligase III.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 May 2006
Puebla-Osorio Nahum, Lacey Devin B, Alt Frederick W, Zhu Chengming
Abstract excerpt
DNA ligases catalyze the joining of strand breaks in the phosphodiester backbone of duplex DNA and play essential roles in DNA replication, recombination, repair, and maintenance of genomic integrity. Three mammalian DNA ligase genes have been identified, and their corresponding ligases play distinct roles in DNA metabolism. DNA ligase III is proposed to be involved in the repairing of DNA single-strand breaks,...
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