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Depletion of the bloom syndrome helicase stimulates homology-dependent repair at double-strand breaks in human chromosomes.
DNA repair - 3 Apr 2011
Wang Yibin, Smith Krissy, Waldman Barbara Criscuolo, Waldman Alan S
Abstract excerpt
Mutation of BLM helicase causes Blooms syndrome, a disorder associated with genome instability, high levels of sister chromatid exchanges, and cancer predisposition. To study the influence of BLM on double-strand break (DSB) repair in human chromosomes, we stably transfected a normal human cell line with a DNA substrate that contained a thymidine kinase (tk)-neo fusion gene disrupted by the recognition site for...
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