Second protective role for tumor-suppressor: DNA damage sensor also responds to oxidative harm outside nucleus

Monday, March 1, 2010 - 22:14 in Biology & Nature

ATM, a protein that reacts to DNA damage by ordering repairs or the suicide of the defective cell, plays a similar, previously unknown role in response to oxidative damage outside of the nucleus, researchers report.

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