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Deletion of Ku80 causes early aging independent of chronic inflammation and Rag-1-induced DSBs.
Mechanisms of ageing and development - 1 Jan 2000
Holcomb Valerie B, Vogel Hannes, Hasty Paul
Abstract excerpt
Animal models of premature aging are often defective for DNA repair. Ku80-mutant mice are disabled for nonhomologous end joining; a pathway that repairs both spontaneous DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) and induced DNA DSBs generated by the action of a complex composed of Rag-1 and Rag-2 (Rag). Ra...
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