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Nature Cell Biology 11, 865–872 (1 July 2009) | doi:10.1038/ncb1895

BRIT1/MCPH1 links chromatin remodelling to DNA damage response

Guang Peng , Eun-Kyoung Yim , Hui Dai , Andrew P. Jackson , Ineke van der Burgt , Mei-Ren Pan , Ruozhen Hu , Kaiyi Li & Shiaw-Yih Lin

To detect and repair damaged DNA, DNA-damage-response proteins need to overcome the barrier of condensed chromatin to gain access to DNA lesions. ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling is one of the fundamental mechanisms used by cells to relax chromatin in DNA repair.