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A chromatin remodeler and a histone chaperone help repair DNA

Fan et al. investigate the proteins involved in DNA base excision repair https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koae052 By Tianyi Fan and Yan Zhu Background: DNA bases are susceptible to damage from environmental factors such as UV light or reactive oxygen species. Base excision repair (BER) can eliminate…

HDT family histone deacetylases are nucleoplasmins

Bobde, Kumar, and Vasudevan explore the properties of a family of predicted histone deactetlyases, finding them to function as nucleoplasmins. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac275 Ruchir C. Bobde, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha - 751023, India; Ashish Kumar, Department of Molecular…