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 …

DNA polymerases and cancer

SS Lange, K Takata, RD Wood - Nature reviews cancer, 2011 - nature.com
There are 15 different DNA polymerases encoded in mammalian genomes, which are
specialized for replication, repair or the tolerance of DNA damage. New evidence is …

Translesion DNA polymerases

MF Goodman, R Woodgate - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2013 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Living cells are continually exposed to DNA-damaging agents that threaten their genomic
integrity. Although DNA repair processes rapidly target the damaged DNA for repair, some …

Advances in understanding the complex mechanisms of DNA interstrand cross-link repair

C Clauson, OD Schärer… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2013 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
DNA interstrand cross-links (ICLs) are lesions caused by a variety of endogenous
metabolites, environmental exposures, and cancer chemotherapeutic agents that have two …

Translesion DNA synthesis and mutagenesis in eukaryotes

JE Sale - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2013 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The structural features that enable replicative DNA polymerases to synthesize DNA rapidly
and accurately also limit their ability to copy damaged DNA. Direct replication of DNA …

Repair of a DNA-protein crosslink by replication-coupled proteolysis

JP Duxin, JM Dewar, H Yardimci, JC Walter - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
DNA-protein crosslinks (DPCs) are caused by environmental, endogenous, and
chemotherapeutic agents and pose a severe threat to genome stability. We use Xenopus …

DNA–protein cross-links: formation, structural identities, and biological outcomes

NY Tretyakova, A Groehler IV, S Ji - Accounts of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Noncovalent DNA–protein interactions are at the heart of normal cell function. In
eukaryotic cells, genomic DNA is wrapped around histone octamers to allow for …

Repair of cisplatin-induced DNA interstrand crosslinks by a replication-independent pathway involving transcription-coupled repair and translesion synthesis

M Enoiu, J Jiricny, OD Schärer - Nucleic acids research, 2012 - academic.oup.com
DNA interstrand crosslinks (ICLs) formed by antitumor agents, such as cisplatin or mitomycin
C, are highly cytotoxic DNA lesions. Their repair is believed to be triggered primarily by the …

Translesion DNA synthesis polymerases in DNA interstrand crosslink repair

TV Ho, OD Schaerer - Environmental and molecular …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
DNA interstrand crosslinks (ICLs) are induced by a number of bifunctional antitumor drugs
such as cisplatin, mitomycin C, or the nitrogen mustards as well as endogenous agents …

Radiation-induced DNA–protein cross-links: mechanisms and biological significance

T Nakano, X Xu, AMH Salem, MI Shoulkamy… - Free Radical Biology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Ionizing radiation produces various DNA lesions such as base damage, DNA single-strand
breaks (SSBs), DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), and DNA–protein cross-links (DPCs). Of …