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 …

Translesion DNA polymerases in eukaryotes: what makes them tick?

A Vaisman, R Woodgate - Critical reviews in biochemistry and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Life as we know it, simply would not exist without DNA replication. All living organisms utilize
a complex machinery to duplicate their genomes and the central role in this machinery …

Mutations in the monkeypox virus replication complex: potential contributing factors to the 2022 outbreak

SR Kannan, S Sachdev, AS Reddy… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Attributes contributing to the current monkeypox virus (MPXV) outbreak remain unknown. It
has been established that mutations in viral proteins may alter phenotype and pathogenicity …

[HTML][HTML] Structure reveals mechanisms of viral suppressors that intercept a CRISPR RNA-guided surveillance complex

S Chowdhury, J Carter, MCF Rollins, SM Golden… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Genetic conflict between viruses and their hosts drives evolution and genetic innovation.
Prokaryotes evolved CRISPR-mediated adaptive immune systems for protection from viral …

Eukaryotic translesion synthesis DNA polymerases: specificity of structure and function

S Prakash, RE Johnson, L Prakash - Annu. Rev. Biochem., 2005 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract This review focuses on eukaryotic translesion synthesis (TLS) DNA polymerases,
and the emphasis is on Saccharomyces cerevisiae and human Y-family polymerases (Pols) …

Interaction of human DNA polymerase η with monoubiquitinated PCNA: a possible mechanism for the polymerase switch in response to DNA damage

PL Kannouche, J Wing, AR Lehmann - Molecular cell, 2004 - cell.com
Most types of DNA damage block replication fork progression during DNA synthesis
because replicative DNA polymerases are unable to accommodate altered DNA bases in …

Eukaryotic translesion polymerases and their roles and regulation in DNA damage tolerance

LS Waters, BK Minesinger, ME Wiltrout… - Microbiology and …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY DNA repair and DNA damage tolerance machineries are crucial to overcome
the vast array of DNA damage that a cell encounters during its lifetime. In this review, we …

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 …

Error-prone repair DNA polymerases in prokaryotes and eukaryotes

MF Goodman - Annual review of biochemistry, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract DNA repair is crucial to the well-being of all organisms from unicellular life forms to
humans. A rich tapestry of mechanistic studies on DNA repair has emerged thanks to the …

Eukaryotic DNA polymerases

U Hübscher, G Maga, S Spadari - Annual review of biochemistry, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Any living cell is faced with the fundamental task of kee** the genome intact in
order to develop in an organized manner, to function in a complex environment, to divide at …