One of the premier institutes of India, IIT Hyderabad in partnership with IIT Guwahati, has claimed that its researchers have unravelled working of a protein that repairs damaged DNA. The team has discovered the mechanism by which these repair proteins assemble when DNA is under threat. The researchers studied the action of one specific protein, called alkB homolog 3 (ALKBH3) and stumbled upon this positive result.
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With the increasing awareness about the impact of DNA damage, efforts were being made globally to understand how these repair proteins work.
The results of the study conducted by IIT-H researchers in collaboration with Arun Goyal, Professor at the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT-Guwahati, was recently published in Nucleic Acid Research, a peer-reviewed journal.
According to the reports, any damage to DNA is caused by the sudden appearance of a harmless mole to catastrophic diseases like cancer.
The finding is an output of both an academic exercise and therapeutic interventions.
One of the co-authors of the paper, Anindya Roy believes that the knowledge gained from these studies can be beneficial from a cancer edradication perspective.
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DNA or Deoxyribonucleic acid is a molecule composed of two chains that coil around each other to form a double helix carrying genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of all known organisms and many viruses. Friedrich Miescher discovered DNA in 1869, although scientists did not understand DNA was the genetic material in cells until 1943. Prior to that time, it was widely believed that proteins stored genetic information.Every human being shares 99% of their DNA with every other human. More Info
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