Chemotherapies are known often to induce severe gastrointestinal tract toxicity but the underlying mechanism re- mains unclear. This study considers the widely applied cytotoxic agent irinotecan (CPT-11) as a repres...
Human single-strand (ss) DNA binding proteins 1 and 2 (hSSB1 and 2) are components of the hSSB1/2-INTS3- C9orf80 heterotrimeric protein complex shown to participate in DNA damage response and maintenance of genome...
Telomere maintenance is critical for genome stability. The newly-identified Ctcl/Stnl/Tenl complex is important for telomere maintenance, though its precise role is unclear. We report here that depletion of hStnl indu...
Recent transcription profiling studies have revealed an unexpectedly large proportion of antisense transcripts in eukaryotic genomes. These antisense genes seem to regulate gene expression by interacting with sense ge...
Stem cells function to generate differentiated cells, and, at the same time, are maintained as ‘immortal' cells through self-renewal. Accumulated evidence indicates that adult stem cells may be the most common precu...