Enzyme Key To 'Sister Act' That Maintains Genome Stability

 11.07.2008 08:11   medicalnewstoday.com

Keeping the genome stable is a "sister act" of matched chromatids - the pairs of the double helix DNA molecule that exist during the chromosome duplication in the S phase of the cell cycle. Maintaining the chromatids in their sister pairs rests with Eco1, a kind of enzyme known as an acetyltransferase.

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