Mechanisms of DNA damage, repair, and mutagenesis

N Chatterjee, GC Walker - Environmental and molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Living organisms are continuously exposed to a myriad of DNA damaging agents that can
impact health and modulate disease‐states. However, robust DNA repair and damage …

Repair of DNA double-strand breaks by the nonhomologous end joining pathway

BM Stinson, JJ Loparo - Annual review of biochemistry, 2021 - annualreviews.org
DNA double-strand breaks pose a serious threat to genome stability. In vertebrates, these
breaks are predominantly repaired by nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ), which pairs DNA …

Structural basis of long-range to short-range synaptic transition in NHEJ

S Chen, L Lee, T Naila, S Fishbain, A Wang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are a highly cytotoxic form of DNA damage and the
incorrect repair of DSBs is linked to carcinogenesis,. The conserved error-prone non …

[HTML][HTML] DNA double strand break repair via non-homologous end-joining

AJ Davis, DJ Chen - Translational cancer research, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
DNA double-stranded breaks (DSB) are among the most dangerous forms of DNA damage.
Unrepaired DSBs results in cells undergoing apoptosis or senescence whereas mis …

Accurate SAXS profile computation and its assessment by contrast variation experiments

D Schneidman-Duhovny, M Hammel, JA Tainer… - Biophysical journal, 2013 - cell.com
A major challenge in structural biology is to characterize structures of proteins and their
assemblies in solution. At low resolution, such a characterization may be achieved by small …

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 …

DNA-PK: a dynamic enzyme in a versatile DSB repair pathway

AJ Davis, BPC Chen, DJ Chen - DNA repair, 2014 - Elsevier
DNA double stranded breaks (DSBs) are the most cytoxic DNA lesion as the inability to
properly repair them can lead to genomic instability and tumorigenesis. The prominent DSB …

The DNA-dependent protein kinase: A multifunctional protein kinase with roles in DNA double strand break repair and mitosis

N Jette, SP Lees-Miller - Progress in biophysics and molecular biology, 2015 - Elsevier
The DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) is a serine/threonine protein kinase
composed of a large catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs) and the Ku70/80 heterodimer. Over the …

ModBase, a database of annotated comparative protein structure models and associated resources

U Pieper, BM Webb, GQ Dong… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract ModBase (http://salilab. org/modbase) is a database of annotated comparative
protein structure models. The models are calculated by ModPipe, an automated modeling …

Cryo-EM of NHEJ supercomplexes provides insights into DNA repair

AK Chaplin, SW Hardwick, AK Stavridi, CJ Buehl… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) is one of two critical mechanisms utilized in humans to
repair DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). Unrepaired or incorrect repair of DSBs can lead to …