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Altered DNA ligase I activity in Bloom's syndrome cells

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Cells from patients with Bloom's syndrome, a rare disease associated with increased cancer frequency, exhibit cytological abnormalities1–3. These include increased numbers of homologous chromatid interchange figures and sister-chromatid exchanges, together with abnormally slow replicon-fork progression4–6 and retarded rate of DNA-chain maturation7,8, and suggest that the primary defect in this recessive disorder affects S-phase DNA replication. DNA ligases and DNA polymerases have long been prime candidates for abnormality in Bloom's syndrome, but various studies of DNA polymerases in Bloom's syndrome cells have disclosed no abnormalities9–11. Evidence is presented here, as in the accompanying paper from a different laboratory12, for the existence in Bloom's syndrome of an abnormality of the DNA ligase involved in semi-conservative DNA replication.

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  1. Experimental Pathology, University of Texas System Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA

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  2. The New York Blood Center, New York, New York, 10021, USA

    James German & James H. Ray

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Chan, J., Becker, F., German, J. et al. Altered DNA ligase I activity in Bloom's syndrome cells. Nature 325, 357–359 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1038/325357a0

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