A Model of Photon Cell Killing Based on the Spatio-Temporal Clustering of DNA Damage in Higher Order Chromatin Structures

We present a new approach to model dose rate effects on cell killing after photon radiation based on the spatio-temporal clustering of DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) within higher order chromatin structures of approximately 1–2 Mbp size, so called giant loops. The main concept of this approach cons...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Herr, Lisa, Friedrich, Thomas, Durante, Marco, Scholz, Michael
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3879277/