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Exonuclease function of human Mre11 promotes deletional nonhomologous end joining.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 30 Oct 2009
Zhuang Jing, Jiang Guochun, Willers Henning, Xia Fen
Abstract excerpt
DNA double-stranded breaks (DSBs) are lethal if not repaired and are highly mutagenic if misrepaired. Nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) is one of the major DSB repair pathways and can rejoin the DSB ends either precisely or with mistakes. Recent evidence suggests the existence of two NHEJ subpathways: conservative NHEJ (C-NHEJ), which does not require microhomology and can join ends precisely; and deletional NHEJ...
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