Rescue of suppressed D-NHEJ by expression of siRNA-resistant wild-type Mre11. A, quantitative real-time PCR to determine the effect of Mre11 knockdown on end joining. The arrows indicate the I-SceI cleavage sites, and the bold arrow indicates the precise religation product as well as the probe C complementary sequence. B, Mre11 knockdown inhibits D-NHEJ. C, Mre11 knockdown does not affect C-NHEJ. **, statistical difference in D-NHEJ repair efficiency between control siRNA versus Mre11 siRNA (p < 0.001). D, wild-type Mre11 rescues D-NHEJ after endogenous Mre11 is knocked down in HEK293/pPHW1 cells. **, statistical difference between control cells and wild-type Mre11-rescued cells (p < 0.001). E, wild-type Mre11 has no effects on C-NHEJ after endogenous Mre11 is knocked down in HEK293/pPHW1 cells. F, protein expression of endogenous Mre11 and exogenous Myc-Mre11 after rescue by transfection of siRNA-resistant Myc-tagged wild-type Mre11. β-Actin was included as a loading control.