title: Unraveling a connection between DNA demethylation repair and cancer.
abstract: In this issue of Molecular Cell, Dango and Mosammaparast discover that the human oxidative demethylase ALKBH3 functions in complex with a DNA helicase to eliminate N3-methylcytosine lesions from ssDNA and that specific cancer cell lines are dependent on this activity for proliferation (Dango et al., 2011).
authors: Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA.
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authors: Eichman