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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (341)
Abstract

Mammalian cells defective in DNA end-joining are highly sensitive to ionizing radiation and are immunodeficient because of a failure to complete V(D)J recombination. By using cell-free extracts prepared from human lymphoblastoid cell lines, an in vitro system for end-joining has been developed. Intermolecular ligation was found to be accurate and to depend on DNA ligase IV/Xrcc4 and requires Ku70, Ku86, and DNA-PK cs , the three subunits of the DNA-activated protein kinase DNA-PK. Because these activities are involved in the cellular resistance to x-irradiation and V(D)J recombination, the development of this in vitro system provides an important advance in the study of the mechanism of DNA end-joining in human cells.

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Baumann, P., & West, S. C. (1998). DNA end-joining catalyzed by human cell-free extracts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95(24), 14066–14070.

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Issued 26 years, 9 months ago (Nov. 24, 1998)
Published 26 years, 9 months ago (Nov. 24, 1998)
Published Online 26 years, 9 months ago (Nov. 24, 1998)
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