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Rad50 connects by hook or by crook

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The Mre11 protein complex plays important roles in maintaining genome stability. Inter-molecular bridging by the Rad50 protein has now been shown to be critical to this complex's function.

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Figure 1: Interactions between hook domains in the Mre11 complex.

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