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Nature Cell Biology 6, 576 - 577 (2004)
doi:10.1038/ncb0704-576

Sleeping policemen for DNA replication?

Daniel Fisher1 & Marcel Méchali1

  1. Daniel Fisher and Marcel Méchali are at the Institute of Human Genetics, CNRS, 141 rue de la Cardonille, 34396 Montpellier, France. e-mail: mechali@igh.cnrs.fr


The ATM and ATR protein kinases are important mediators of the cellular response to DNA damage. They regulate multiple cellular functions as part of a stress response programme, including the activation of cell-cycle checkpoints, DNA replication, DNA repair and DNA recombination. A provocative new study suggests that ATM and ATR also regulate normal DNA replication in unperturbed cells.

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