53BP1 promotes microhomology-mediated end-joining in G1-phase cells

X Xiong, Z Du, Y Wang, Z Feng, P Fan… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Alternative non-homologous end joining (alt-NHEJ) was originally identified as a backup
repair mechanism in the absence of classical NHEJ (c-NHEJ) factors but recent studies have …

BRCA 1 and Ct IP promote alternative non‐homologous end‐joining at uncapped telomeres

S Badie, AR Carlos, C Folio, K Okamoto… - The EMBO …, 2015 - embopress.org
Loss of telomere protection occurs during physiological cell senescence and ageing, due to
attrition of telomeric repeats and insufficient retention of the telomere‐binding factor TRF 2 …

Dose response and adaptive response of non-homologous end joining repair genes and proteins in resting human peripheral blood mononuclear cells exposed to γ …

S Shelke, B Das - Mutagenesis, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Ionising radiation induces single-strand breaks, double-strand breaks (DSB) and base
damages in human cell. DSBs are the most deleterious and if not repaired may lead to …

NKX3.1 Suppresses TMPRSS2–ERG Gene Rearrangement and Mediates Repair of Androgen Receptor–Induced DNA Damage

C Bowen, T Zheng, EP Gelmann - Cancer research, 2015 - AACR
TMPRSS2 gene rearrangements occur at DNA breaks formed during androgen receptor–
mediated transcription and activate expression of ETS transcription factors at the early …

Identification of novel radiosensitizers in a high-throughput, cell-based screen for DSB repair inhibitors

AG Goglia, R Delsite, AN Luz, D Shahbazian… - Molecular cancer …, 2015 - AACR
Most cancer therapies involve a component of treatment that inflicts DNA damage in tumor
cells, such as double-strand breaks (DSBs), which are considered the most serious threat to …

[HTML][HTML] AMPKα1 deficiency promotes cellular proliferation and DNA damage via p21 reduction in mouse embryonic fibroblasts

H Xu, Y Zhou, KA Coughlan, Y Ding, S Wang… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2015 - Elsevier
Emerging evidence suggests that activation of adenosine monophosphate-activated protein
kinase (AMPK), an energy gauge and redox sensor, controls the cell cycle and protects …

Processing by MRE11 is involved in the sensitivity of subtelomeric regions to DNA double-strand breaks

K Muraki, L Han, D Miller, JP Murnane - Nucleic acids research, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The caps on the ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, keep the ends of chromosomes
from appearing as DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) and prevent chromosome fusion …

Single-stranded DNA oligomers stimulate error-prone alternative repair of DNA double-strand breaks through hijacking Ku protein

Y Yuan, S Britton, C Delteil, J Coates… - Nucleic Acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
In humans, DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are repaired by two mutually-exclusive
mechanisms, homologous recombination or end-joining. Among end-joining mechanisms …

[PDF][PDF] The role of MAR elements in DNA recombination

K Kostyrko - 2015 - serval.unil.ch
The untargeted integration of foreign DNA into the mammalian cell genome, extensively
used in gene therapy and biotechnology, remains an incompletely understood process. It is …