Tuesday, 21 May, 2013

DNA damage

The dark side of respiration

Adventitious changes in cellular DNA can endanger the whole organism, as they may lead to life-threatening illnesses like cancer. Researchers at LMU now report how byproducts of respiration cause mispairing of subunits in the double helix. more...

Presseinformation der LMU (deutsch)
Publication "Unexpected non-Hoogsteenbased mutagenicity mechanism of FaPy-DNA lesions"