A new role for miR-182 in DNA repair

Evelyn Yao; Andrea Ventura

doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2011.01.005

A new role for miR-182 in DNA repair

Mol Cell. 2011 Jan 21;41(2):135-7. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2011.01.005.

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Evelyn Yao¹, Andrea Ventura

Affiliation

¹ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA.

PMID: 21255724
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2011.01.005

Abstract

A role for miRNAs in modulating cellular responses to DNA damage and chemotherapy is emerging. In this issue of Molecular Cell, Moskwa and colleagues propose a novel function for miR-182 in the posttranscriptional regulation of BRCA1 expression and in DNA repair (Moskwa et al., 2011).

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