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 …

p53 mutations in human cancers

M Hollstein, D Sidransky, B Vogelstein, CC Harris - Science, 1991‏ - science.org
Mutations in the evolutionarily conserved codons of the p53 tumor suppressor gene are
common in diverse types of human cancer. The p53 mutational spectrum differs among …

The human mutator gene homolog MSH2 and its association with hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer

R Fishel, MK Lescoe, MRS Rao, NG Copeland… - Cell, 1993‏ - cell.com
We have identified a human homolog of the bacterial MutS and S. cerevisiae MSH proteins,
called hMSH2. Expression of hMSH2 in E. coli causes a dominant mutator phenotype …

Inducible gene targeting in mice

R Kühn, F Schwenk, M Aguet, K Rajewsky - Science, 1995‏ - science.org
A method of gene targeting that allows the inducible inactivation of a target gene in mice is
presented. The method uses an interferon-responsive promoter to control the expression of …

DNA glycosylases in the base excision repair of DNA

HE Krokan, R Standal, G Slupphaug - Biochemical Journal, 1997‏ - portlandpress.com
A wide range of cytotoxic and mutagenic DNA bases are removed by different DNA
glycosylases, which initiate the base excision repair pathway. DNA glycosylases cleave the …

Requirement of mammalian DNA polymerase-β in base-excision repair

RW Sobol, JK Horton, R Kühn, H Gu, RK Singhal… - Nature, 1996‏ - nature.com
Abstract SYNTHESIS of DNA by DNA polymerase-β is distributive on single-stranded DNA
templates, but short DNA gaps with a 5′ PO4 in the gap are filled processively to …

Mechanisms of human DNA repair: an update

M Christmann, MT Tomicic, WP Roos, B Kaina - Toxicology, 2003‏ - Elsevier
The human genome, comprising three billion base pairs coding for 30000–40000 genes, is
constantly attacked by endogenous reactive metabolites, therapeutic drugs and a plethora of …

Reconstitution of DNA base excision‐repair with purified human proteins: interaction between DNA polymerase beta and the XRCC1 protein.

Y Kubota, RA Nash, A Klungland, P Schär… - The EMBO …, 1996‏ - embopress.org
Repair of a uracil‐guanine base pair in DNA has been reconstituted with the recombinant
human proteins uracil‐DNA glycosylase, apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease, DNA …

Excision of deoxyribose phosphate residues by DNA polymerase β during DNA repair

Y Matsumoto, K Kim - Science, 1995‏ - science.org
Eukaryotic DNA polymerase β (pol β) can catalyze DNA synthesis during base excision DNA
repair. It is shown here that pol β also catalyzes release of 5′-terminal deoxyribose …

DNA methylation and mutation

R Holliday, GW Grigg - Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular …, 1993‏ - Elsevier
Methylcytosine (5mC) in DNA is produced by post-synthetic modification of cytosine
residues, and it occurs primarily in CpG doublets in the mammalian genome. 5mC is a …