The BLM Helicase Interacts with MLH1 but Is Not Required For DNA Mismatch Repair. Gregory Langland 1 , Jennifer Kordich 1 , Jenette Creaney 1 , Kathleen Heppner Goss 1 , Kate Lillard-Wetherell 1 , Katarzyna Bebenek 2 , Thomas A. Kunkel 2 and Joanna Groden 1,3 1 Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267 2 Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 This work was supported in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health CA63507 (JG), CA59268-06A1 (GL), and the Center for Environmental Genetics at the University of Cincinnati (ES06096). JG is an Assistant Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 3 To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 231 Albert Sabin Way, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0524. Email: joanna.groden@uc.edu Copyright 2001 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc. JBC Papers in Press. Published on April 26, 2001 as Manuscript M009664200 by guest on February 4, 2016 http://www.jbc.org/ Downloaded from