Nuclear microtubule filaments mediate non-linear directional motion of chromatin and promote DNA repair

Following DNA damage, different processes come to action to aid repair. The authors here find that microtubule filaments within the cell nucleus capture and non-randomly mobilize damaged chromatin to mediate DNA repair.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Roxanne Oshidari, Jonathan Strecker, Daniel K. C. Chung, Karan J. Abraham, Janet N. Y. Chan, Christopher J. Damaren, Karim Mekhail
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05009-7