DNA double-strand break repair-pathway choice in somatic mammalian cells

R Scully, A Panday, R Elango, NA Willis - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2019 - nature.com
The major pathways of DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair are crucial for maintaining
genomic stability. However, if deployed in an inappropriate cellular context, these same …

ATM, ATR, and DNA-PK: The Trinity at the Heart of the DNA Damage Response

AN Blackford, SP Jackson - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
In vertebrate cells, the DNA damage response is controlled by three related kinases: ATM,
ATR, and DNA-PK. It has been 20 years since the cloning of ATR, the last of the three to be …

DNA damage sensing by the ATM and ATR kinases

A Maréchal, L Zou - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2013 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
In eukaryotic cells, maintenance of genomic stability relies on the coordinated action of a
network of cellular processes, including DNA replication, DNA repair, cell-cycle progression …

More than just a focus: The chromatin response to DNA damage and its role in genome integrity maintenance

J Lukas, C Lukas, J Bartek - Nature cell biology, 2011 - nature.com
Following the discovery in 1998 of γ-H2AX, the first histone modification induced by DNA
damage, interest in the changes to chromatin induced by DNA damage has exploded, and a …

Immunoglobulin class-switch DNA recombination: induction, targeting and beyond

Z Xu, H Zan, EJ Pone, T Mai, P Casali - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2012 - nature.com
Class-switch DNA recombination (CSR) of the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IGH) locus is
central to the maturation of the antibody response and crucially requires the cytidine …

Modernizing the nonhomologous end-joining repertoire: alternative and classical NHEJ share the stage

L Deriano, DB Roth - Annual review of genetics, 2013 - annualreviews.org
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are common lesions that continually threaten genomic
integrity. Failure to repair a DSB has deleterious consequences, including cell death …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of programmed DNA lesions and genomic instability in the immune system

FW Alt, Y Zhang, FL Meng, C Guo, B Schwer - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Chromosomal translocations involving antigen receptor loci are common in lymphoid
malignancies. Translocations require DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) at two …

Repair of double-strand breaks by end joining

KK Chiruvella, Z Liang… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2013 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) refers to a set of genome maintenance pathways in
which two DNA double-strand break (DSB) ends are (re) joined by apposition, processing …

Double strand break repair functions of histone H2AX

R Scully, A **e - … Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Chromosomal double strand breaks provoke an extensive reaction in neighboring
chromatin, characterized by phosphorylation of histone H2AX on serine 139 of its C-terminal …

Function and molecular mechanism of the DNA damage response in immunity and cancer immunotherapy

Z Ye, Y Shi, SP Lees-Miller, JA Tainer - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The DNA damage response (DDR) is an organized network of multiple interwoven
components evolved to repair damaged DNA and maintain genome fidelity. Conceptually …