Understanding Why BRCA2 Is Linked to Cancer Risk (VIDEO)

University of California - Davis

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BRCA2 proteins (smaller pink blobs) attach to a piece of DNA anchored by optical tweezers. A stretch of single-stranded DNA is dark in the initial image. Single-molecule imaging in real time reveals the dynamics of how BRCA2 chaperones RAD51 onto single-stranded DNA.

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Jason Bell and Stephen Kowalczykkowski, UC Davis

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