From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Thu Sep 12 2002 - 13:52:17 MDT
New Scientist is reporting the function of BRCA2 has
been revealed. It turns out to play a critical role
in homologous recombination repair (copying of the
DNA from the sister chromosome) in the event of
double strand breaks.
URL:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992791
Yet another nail in the coffin that double strand break
repair is a critical factor in cancer and aging.
Robert
P.S. The article also cites a reference that BRCA1 is involved
with interferon gamma and reducing DNA repair -- if anyone runs
across the reference to this please post.
The URL cites a Science paper but I can't seem to find it
in the 6 Sep issue (perhaps in the 13 Sep issue?).
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