Methyl directed mismatch repair [HD Animation] on Make a GIF

Marvel at our molecular machines 🧬 This DNA repair mechanism is underway in your cells, undoing mutations that would otherwise dissolve into cancer and chaos. It employs ~600 proteins organized into over 100 functional assemblies operating in a complex sequence of steps. Even slowed down, as it is here, it gets bonkers near the end. Deinococcus radiodurans takes it further; it has evolved in modern times to thrive in nuclear reactor coolant lines, where its DNA is blasted apart into pieces (dou