Base excision repair in the immune system: small DNA lesions with big consequences

M Stratigopoulou, TP van Dam… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The integrity of the genome is under constant threat of environmental and endogenous
agents that cause DNA damage. Endogenous damage is particularly pervasive, occurring at …

The base excision repair process: comparison between higher and lower eukaryotes

NN Hindi, N Elsakrmy, D Ramotar - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2021 - Springer
The base excision repair (BER) pathway is essential for maintaining the stability of DNA in
all organisms and defects in this process are associated with life-threatening diseases. It is …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic and protein expression analysis reveals flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1) as a key biomarker in breast and ovarian cancer

TMA Abdel-Fatah, R Russell, N Albarakati… - Molecular …, 2014 - Elsevier
FEN1 has key roles in Okazaki fragment maturation during replication, long patch base
excision repair, rescue of stalled replication forks, maintenance of telomere stability and …

Functional mutation, splice, distribution, and divergence analysis of impactful genes associated with heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases

I Mhatre, H Abdelhalim, W Degroat, S Ashok… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is caused by a multitude of complex and largely heritable
conditions. Identifying key genes and understanding their susceptibility to CVD in the human …

[HTML][HTML] Untangling the ATR-CHEK1 network for prognostication, prediction and therapeutic target validation in breast cancer

TMA Abdel-Fatah, FK Middleton, A Arora, D Agarwal… - Molecular …, 2015 - Elsevier
ATR-CHEK1 signalling is critical for genomic stability. ATR-CHEK1 signalling may be
deregulated in breast cancer and have prognostic, predictive and therapeutic significance …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting BRCA1-BER deficient breast cancer by ATM or DNA-PKcs blockade either alone or in combination with cisplatin for personalized therapy

N Albarakati, TMA Abdel-Fatah, R Doherty, R Russell… - Molecular …, 2015 - Elsevier
BRCA1, a key factor in homologous recombination (HR) repair may also regulate base
excision repair (BER). Targeting BRCA1-BER deficient cells by blockade of ATM and DNA …

Transcriptionally amplified synthesis of fluorogenic RNA aptamers for label-free DNA glycosylase assay

F Ma, YZ Liu, M Liu, JG Qiu, CY Zhang - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We demonstrate for the first time the utilization of fluorogenic RNA aptamers for label-free
uracil-DNA glycosylase (UDG) assay. Through rationally engineering the transcription …

A regulatory network comprising let-7 miRNA and SMUG1 is associated with good prognosis in ER+ breast tumours

L Lirussi, D Ayyildiz, Y Liu, NP Montaldo… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Single-strand selective uracil–DNA glycosylase 1 (SMUG1) initiates base excision repair
(BER) of uracil and oxidized pyrimidines. SMUG1 status has been associated with cancer …

Transcriptomic and protein expression analysis reveals clinicopathological significance of bloom syndrome helicase (BLM) in breast cancer

A Arora, TMA Abdel-Fatah, D Agarwal, R Doherty… - Molecular cancer …, 2015 - AACR
Bloom syndrome helicase (BLM) has key roles in homologous recombination repair,
telomere maintenance, and DNA replication. Germ-line mutations in the BLM gene causes …

Unravelling the clinicopathological and functional significance of replication protein A (RPA) heterotrimeric complex in breast cancers

M Algethami, MS Toss, CL Woodcock, C Jaipal… - NPJ Breast …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Replication Protein A (RPA), a heterotrimeric complex consisting of RPA1, 2, and 3
subunits, is a single-stranded DNA (ssDNA)-binding protein that is critically involved in …