Open AccessMitosis first, DNA repair later
Author(s) -
Mitch Leslie
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the journal of cell biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.414
H-Index - 380
eISSN - 1540-8140
pISSN - 0021-9525
DOI - 10.1083/jcb.1902iti2
Subject(s) - mitosis , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , dna , genetics
Mitotic cells are procrastinators—at least when it comes to making repairs. As [Giunta et al.][1] report, the cells label broken DNA, waiting until after mitosis to fix it.![Figure][2] The lack of red in the merged image (right) shows that this mitotic cell is not ubiquitylating the sites
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