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The expanding arena of DNA repair

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The protein Sae2 mediates the repair of double-strand breaks in DNA. It emerges that Sae2 activity is controlled by both its modification with acetyl groups and its degradation by the process of autophagy. See Article p.74

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Figure 1: Possible role of Sae2 in DNA-damage repair1.

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  1. Catherine J. Potenski and Hannah L. Klein are in the Department of Biochemistry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA.,

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