Bourges, Anaïs C Torres Montaguth, Oscar E Tadesse, Wubishet Labesse, Gilles Aertsen, Abram Royer, Catherine A Declerck, Nathalie
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Mrr from Escherichia coli K12 is a type IV restriction endonuclease whose role is to recognize and cleave foreign methylated DNA. Beyond this protective role, Mrr can inflict chromosomal DNA damage that elicits the SOS response in the host cell upon heterologous expression of specific methyltransferases such as M.HhaII, or after exposure to high pr...
Gupta, Shantanu Silveira, Daner A Mombach, José Carlos M
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How a cell determines a given phenotype upon damaged DNA is an open problem. Cell fate decisions happen at cell cycle checkpoints and it is becoming clearer that the p53 pathway is a major regulator of cell fate decisions involving apoptosis or senescence upon DNA damage, especially at G1/S. However, recent results suggest that this pathway is also...
Dhar, Srijita Datta, Arindam Brosh, Robert M Jr
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DNA helicases, known for their fundamentally important roles in genomic stability, are high profile players in cancer. Not only are there monogenic helicase disorders with a strong disposition to cancer, it is well appreciated that helicase variants are associated with specific cancers (e.g., breast cancer). Flipping the coin, DNA helicases are fre...
Kim, Ahhyun Montales, Katrina Ruis, Kenna Senebandith, Holly Gasparyan, Hovik Cowan, Quinn Michael, W Matthew
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TOPBP1 is an important scaffold protein that helps orchestrate the cellular response to DNA damage. Although it has been previously appreciated that TOPBP1 can form oligomers, how this occurs and the functional consequences for oligomerization were not yet known. Here, we use protein binding assays and other biochemical techniques to study how TOPB...
Chesner, Lisa N Essawy, Maram Warner, Cecilia Campbell, Colin
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While mammalian mitochondria are known to possess a robust base excision repair system, direct evidence for the existence of additional mitochondrial DNA repair pathways is elusive. Herein a PCR-based assay was employed to demonstrate that plasmids containing DNA-protein crosslinks are rapidly repaired following electroporation into isolated mammal...
Ding, Dongbo Sun, Xulun Pang, Matthew Y H An, Liwei Huen, Michael S Y Hu, Taobo Ishibashi, Toyotaka
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RecQL5, a mammalian RecQ family protein, is involved in the regulation of transcription elongation, DNA damage response, and DNA replication. Here, we identified and characterized an alternative splicing isoform of RECQL5 (RECQL5β1), which contains 17 additional amino acid residues within the RECQL5 KIX domain when compared with the canonical isofo...
Ruff, Sophie E Logan, Susan K Garabedian, Michael J Huang, Tony T
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The DNA damage response (DDR) is necessary to maintain genome integrity and prevent the accumulation of oncogenic mutations. Consequently, proteins involved in the DDR often serve as tumor suppressors, carrying out the crucial task of keeping DNA fidelity intact. Mediator of DNA damage checkpoint 1 (MDC1) is a scaffold protein involved in the early...
Selvam, Kathiresan Rahman, Sheikh Arafatur Forrester, Derek Bao, Adam Lieu, Michael Li, Shisheng
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UV is a significant environmental agent that damages DNA. Translesion synthesis (TLS) is a DNA damage tolerance pathway that utilizes specialized DNA polymerases to replicate through the damaged DNA, often leading to mutagenesis. In eukaryotic cells, genomic DNA is organized into chromatin that is composed of nucleosomes. To date, if and/or how TLS...
Wang, Hongyan Wang, Xiang Zhang, Piyan Wang, Ya
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Baddock, Hannah T Yosaatmadja, Yuliana Newman, Joseph A Schofield, Christopher J Gileadi, Opher McHugh, Peter J
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Unrepaired, or misrepaired, DNA damage can contribute to the pathogenesis of a number of conditions, or disease states; thus, DNA damage repair pathways, and the proteins within them, are required for the safeguarding of the genome. Human SNM1A is a 5'-to-3' exonuclease that plays a role in multiple DNA damage repair processes. To date, most data s...