DNA damage and associated DNA repair defects in disease and premature aging

V Tiwari, DM Wilson - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2019 - cell.com
Genetic information is constantly being attacked by intrinsic and extrinsic damaging agents,
such as reactive oxygen species, atmospheric radiation, environmental chemicals, and …

DNA oxidation and excision repair pathways

TH Lee, TH Kang - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
The physiological impact of the aberrant oxidation products on genomic DNA were
demonstrated by embryonic lethality or the cancer susceptibility and/or neurological …

Drugging the cancers addicted to DNA repair

JA Nickoloff, D Jones, SH Lee… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Defects in DNA repair can result in oncogenic genomic instability. Cancers occurring from
DNA repair defects were once thought to be limited to rare inherited mutations (such as …

The current state of eukaryotic DNA base damage and repair

NC Bauer, AH Corbett, PW Doetsch - Nucleic acids research, 2015 - academic.oup.com
DNA damage is a natural hazard of life. The most common DNA lesions are base, sugar,
and single-strand break damage resulting from oxidation, alkylation, deamination, and …

Comprehensive toxicological assessment of halobenzoquinones in drinking water at environmentally relevant concentration

Y Wang, F Wang, L Li, L Zhang, M Song… - … Science & Technology, 2024 - ACS Publications
Halobenzoquinones (HBQs), an emerging unregulated category of disinfection byproduct
(DBP) in drinking water, have aroused an increasing concern over their potential health …

Reconsidering the chemical nature of Strand breaks derived from abasic sites in cellular DNA: evidence for 3′-glutathionylation

JS Jha, J Yin, T Haldar, Z Yang, Y Wang… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The hydrolytic loss of coding bases from cellular DNA is a common and unavoidable
reaction. The resulting abasic sites can undergo β-elimination of the 3′-phosphoryl group …

Formation and repair of unavoidable, endogenous interstrand cross-links in cellular DNA

K Housh, JS Jha, T Haldar, SBM Amin, T Islam… - DNA repair, 2021 - Elsevier
Genome integrity is essential for life and, as a result, DNA repair systems evolved to remove
unavoidable DNA lesions from cellular DNA. Many forms of life possess the capacity to …

A role for the base excision repair enzyme NEIL3 in replication-dependent repair of interstrand DNA cross-links derived from psoralen and abasic sites

Z Yang, MI Nejad, JG Varela, NE Price, Y Wang… - DNA repair, 2017 - Elsevier
Interstrand DNA–DNA cross-links are highly toxic lesions that are important in medicinal
chemistry, toxicology, and endogenous biology. In current models of replication-dependent …

Selective anti-tumor activity of glutathione-responsive abasic site trap** agent in anaplastic thyroid carcinoma

J Chai, M Su, R Zhang, N Li, Y Jia, W Zheng, J Tan… - BMC cancer, 2024 - Springer
Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is a rare but highly aggressive thyroid cancer with poor
prognosis. Killing cancer cells by inducing DNA damage or blockage of DNA repair is a …

Key amino acid residues of mitochondrial transcription factor A synergize with abasic (AP) site dynamics to facilitate AP-lyase reactions

W Zhao, W Xu, J Tang, S Kaushik… - ACS chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) encodes 37 essential genes and plays a critical role in
mitochondrial and cellular functions. mtDNA is susceptible to damage by endogenous and …