Price, Brendan2018-02-262017Price, Brendan D. 2017. “KDM5A demethylase: Erasing histone modifications to promote repair of DNA breaks.” The Journal of Cell Biology 216 (7): 1871-1873. doi:10.1083/jcb.201705005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201705005.http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:34868853Repairing DNA breaks within the complexity of the cell chromatin is challenging. In this issue, Gong et al. (2017. J. Cell Biol. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201611135) identify the histone demethylase KDM5A as a critical editor of the cells’ “histone code” that is required to recruit DNA repair complexes to DNA breaks.en-USSpotlightJournal Article2018-02-2610.1083/jcb.201705005