Nuclear PTEN promotes homologous recombination but restrains non-homologous end joining repair.
Nuclear PTEN interferes with binding of Ku70 at DNA breaks.
Nuclear PTEN regulates stability of PARP1 and the poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation of Ku70.
Absence of nuclear PTEN rather than phosphatase-negative PTEN sensitizes cell to anti-tumor DNA damage drugs.