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Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 16, 798 - 800 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nsmb0809-798

Mre11: roles in DNA repair beyond homologous recombination

Shan Zha1, Cristian Boboila1 & Frederick W Alt1

  1. Shan Zha, Cristian Boboila, Frederick W. Alt are at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Children's Hospital, The CBR institute of Biomedical Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Correspondence to: Frederick W Alt1 e-mail: alt@enders.tch.harvard.edu


The Mre11 protein has well-documented functions in the repair of DNA double-strand breaks via homologous recombination. Now, several new studies reveal that Mre11 also has a role in mammalian DNA double-strand break repair by nonhomologous end joining.

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