Application of in vitro metabolism activation in high-throughput screening

M Ooka, C Lynch, M Xia - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
In vitro methods which incorporate metabolic capability into the assays allow us to assess
the activity of metabolites from their parent compounds. These methods can be applied into …

The proofreading exonuclease of leading-strand DNA polymerase epsilon prevents replication fork collapse at broken template strands

T Ahmad, R Kawasumi, T Taniguchi, T Abe… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Leading-strand DNA replication by polymerase epsilon (Polϵ) across single-strand breaks
(SSBs) causes single-ended double-strand breaks (seDSBs), which are repaired via …

Degradation of azo dye methyl red by Saccharomyces cerevisiae ATCC 9763

S Vatandoostarani, TB Lotfabad, A Heidarinasab… - International …, 2017 - Elsevier
Azo dyes are common dye groups widely used in different industries. Industrial effluents
which contain these dyes pervade water resources and have various known and unknown …

XRCC1 counteracts poly (ADP ribose) polymerase (PARP) poisons, olaparib and talazoparib, and a clinical alkylating agent, temozolomide, by promoting the removal …

K Hirota, M Ooka, N Shimizu, K Yamada… - Genes to …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Base excision repair (BER) removes damaged bases by generating single‐strand breaks
(SSBs), gap‐filling by DNA polymerase β (POLβ), and resealing SSBs. A base‐damaging …

CTF18-RFC contributes to cellular tolerance against chain-terminating nucleoside analogs (CTNAs) in cooperation with proofreading exonuclease activity of DNA …

M Washif, T Ahmad, MB Hosen, MR Rahman… - DNA repair, 2023 - Elsevier
Chemotherapeutic nucleoside analogs, such as cytarabine (Ara-C), are incorporated into
genomic DNA during replication. Incorporated Ara-CMP (Ara-cytidine monophosphate) …

Molecular modeling study of the genotoxicity of the Sudan I and Sudan II azo dyes and their metabolites

RJ Bienstock, L Perera, MA Pasquinelli - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Azo dyes are defined by the presence of a characteristic N= N group. Sudan I and Sudan II
are synthetic azo dyes that have been used as coloring agents. Although animal toxicity …

Preliminary in silico studies of the interactions of certain genotoxic azo dyes with different double-stranded DNA conformations

ES İstifli - Colorants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Organic azo dyes, which are widely used in industrial, health and cosmetic fields, pose
genotoxic risks due to their chemical structures; however, the molecular details of the …

Chromatin remodeler ALC1 prevents replication-fork collapse by slowing fork progression

M Ooka, T Abe, K Cho, K Koike, S Takeda, K Hirota - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
ALC1 (amplified in liver cancer 1), an SNF2 superfamily chromatin-remodeling factor also
known as CHD1L (chromodomain helicase/ATPase DNA binding protein 1-like), is …

SPARTAN promotes genetic diversification of the immunoglobulin-variable gene locus in avian DT40 cells

A Nakazato, K Kajita, M Ooka, R Akagawa, T Abe… - DNA repair, 2018 - Elsevier
Prolonged replication arrest on damaged templates is a cause of fork collapse, potentially
resulting in genome instability. Arrested replication is rescued by translesion DNA synthesis …

Pold4 subunit of replicative polymerase δ promotes fork slowing at broken templates

K Kojima, H Ohkubo, R Kawasumi, K Hirota - DNA repair, 2024 - Elsevier
Single-strand breaks (SSBs) are the most frequent type of lesion, and replication across
such lesions leads to double-strand breaks (DSBs). DSBs that arise during replication are …