Published in Cancer Weekly, August 11th, 2009
"The underlying genetic defect is mutation of the BLM gene, producing deficiency in the RecQ helicase BLM (Bloom's syndrome protein). The present article begins by introducing BLM and its binding partners before reviewing its known biochemical activities and its potential roles both as a pro-recombinase and as a suppressor of homologous recombination," wrote M. Payne and colleagues, University of Oxford.
The researchers concluded: "Finally, the evidence for an emerging role...
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