DNA repair deficiency in neuropathogenesis: when all roads lead to mitochondria

Abstract Mutations in DNA repair enzymes can cause two neurological clinical manifestations: a developmental impairment and a degenerative disease. Polynucleotide kinase 3′-phosphatase (PNKP) is an enzyme that is actively involved in DNA repair in both single and double strand break repair systems....

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Main Authors: Luis Bermúdez-Guzmán, Alejandro Leal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-05-01
Series:Translational Neurodegeneration
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40035-019-0156-x