Repair of double-strand breaks by end joining

KK Chiruvella, Z Liang… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2013 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) refers to a set of genome maintenance pathways in
which two DNA double-strand break (DSB) ends are (re) joined by apposition, processing …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of programmed DNA lesions and genomic instability in the immune system

FW Alt, Y Zhang, FL Meng, C Guo, B Schwer - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Chromosomal translocations involving antigen receptor loci are common in lymphoid
malignancies. Translocations require DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) at two …

[HTML][HTML] A cell cycle-dependent regulatory circuit composed of 53BP1-RIF1 and BRCA1-CtIP controls DNA repair pathway choice

C Escribano-Díaz, A Orthwein, A Fradet-Turcotte… - Molecular cell, 2013 - cell.com
DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair pathway choice is governed by the opposing
activities of 53BP1 and BRCA1. 53BP1 stimulates nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) …

Modernizing the nonhomologous end-joining repertoire: alternative and classical NHEJ share the stage

L Deriano, DB Roth - Annual review of genetics, 2013 - annualreviews.org
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are common lesions that continually threaten genomic
integrity. Failure to repair a DSB has deleterious consequences, including cell death …

Function and molecular mechanism of the DNA damage response in immunity and cancer immunotherapy

Z Ye, Y Shi, SP Lees-Miller, JA Tainer - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The DNA damage response (DDR) is an organized network of multiple interwoven
components evolved to repair damaged DNA and maintain genome fidelity. Conceptually …

Classical and alternative end-joining pathways for repair of lymphocyte-specific and general DNA double-strand breaks

C Boboila, FW Alt, B Schwer - Advances in immunology, 2012 - Elsevier
Classical nonhomologous end joining (C-NHEJ) is one of the two major known pathways for
the repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) in mammalian cells. Our understanding of C …

[HTML][HTML] Alternative end-joining pathway (s): bricolage at DNA breaks

P Frit, N Barboule, Y Yuan, D Gomez, P Calsou - DNA repair, 2014 - Elsevier
To cope with DNA double strand break (DSB) genotoxicity, cells have evolved two main
repair pathways: homologous recombination which uses homologous DNA sequences as …

Role of 53BP1 in the regulation of DNA double-strand break repair pathway choice

A Gupta, CR Hunt, S Chakraborty… - Radiation …, 2014 - meridian.allenpress.com
The p53-binding protein 1 (53BP1) is a well-known DNA damage response (DDR) factor,
which is recruited to nuclear structures at the site of DNA damage and forms readily …

MRI is a DNA damage response adaptor during classical non-homologous end joining

PJ Hung, B Johnson, BR Chen, AK Byrum… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
The modulator of retrovirus infection (MRI or CYREN) is a 30-kDa protein with a conserved
N-terminal Ku-binding motif (KBM) and a C-terminal XLF-like motif (XLM). We show that MRI …

PAXX promotes KU accumulation at DNA breaks and is essential for end-joining in XLF-deficient mice

X Liu, Z Shao, W Jiang, BJ Lee, S Zha - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) is the most prominent DNA double strand break (DSB)
repair pathway in mammalian cells. PAXX is the newest NHEJ factor, which shares structural …