Danish Team Discovers Possible Cancer Culprit: ‘Protein Scaffolding’ for DNA Repair

A relatively enormous ‘protein scaffolding’ network that stabilizes and then fixes DNA damage was found to be a potential cause of cancer by a team of scientists in Denmark if the mechanism utilizing the proteins 53BP1 and RIF1 malfunctions. The resulting pathway could be the culprit behind some diseases, according t o the results reported in the journal Nature.

Source: CancerNetwork - October 31, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Seth Augenstein Source Type: news