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DNA polymerase beta

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Requirements for DNA bubble structure for efficient cleavage by helix-two-turn-helix DNA glycosylases

Oxidative DNA lesions, constantly generated by both endogenous and environmentally induced reactive oxygen species, are removed via the base excision repair pathway. In bacteria, Fpg and Nei DNA glycosylases, belonging to the helix-two-turn-helix (H2TH) st ...

2020

A scalable CRISPR/Cas9-based fluorescent reporter assay to study DNA double-strand break repair choice

Stephanie Jocelyne Sungalee

Double-strand breaks (DSBs) are the most toxic type of DNA lesions. Cells repair these lesions using either end protection- or end resection-coupled mechanisms. To study DSB repair choice, we present the Color Assay Tracing-Repair (CAT-R) to simultaneously ...

Nature Research2020

Long noncoding RNA SNHG12 integrates a DNA-PK-mediated DNA damage response and vascular senescence

Johan Auwerx, Norman Lionel Moullan, Lei Chen

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are emerging regulators of biological processes in the vessel wall; however, their role in atherosclerosis remains poorly defined. We used RNA sequencing to profile lncRNAs derived specifically from the aortic intima of Ldlr(- ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2020

Preexisting variation in DNA damage response predicts the fate of single mycobacteria under stress

John McKinney, Neeraj Dhar, Giulia Manina, Lalit Kumar Singh

Clonal microbial populations are inherently heterogeneous, and this diversification is often considered as an adaptation strategy. In clinical infections, phenotypic diversity is found to be associated with drug tolerance, which in turn could evolve into g ...

2019

Cooperative motion of a key positively charged residue and metal ions for DNA replication catalyzed by human DNA Polymerase-eta

Matteo Dal Peraro, Vito Genna

Trans-lesion synthesis polymerases, like DNA Polymerase-eta (Pol-eta), are essential for cell survival. Pol-eta bypasses ultraviolet-induced DNA damages via a two-metal-ion mechanism that assures DNA strand elongation, with formation of the leaving group p ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2016

Protein ruthenation and DNA alkylation: chlorambucil-functionalized RAPTA complexes and their anticancer activity

Paul Joseph Dyson, Christian Hartinger, Alexey Nazarov, Olivier Pierre Zava

Chemotherapeutics for the treatment of tumorigenic conditions that feature novel modes of action are highly sought after to overcome the limitations of current chemotherapies. Herein, we report the conjugation of the alkylating agent chlorambucil to the RA ...

2015

Combining RNAi and in vivo confocal microscopy analysis of the photoconvertible fluorescent protein Dendra2 to study a DNA repair protein

Matteo Di Piazza

Clinical approaches for tumor treatment often rely on combination therapy where a DNA damaging agent is used in combination with a DNA repair protein inhibitor. For this reason, great efforts have been made during the last decade to identify inhibitors of ...

Biotechniques Office2013

Insights into Intrastrand Cross-Link Lesions of DNA from QM/MM Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Ursula Röthlisberger, Chandan Patel

DNA damages induced by oxidative intrastrand cross-links have been the subject of intense research during the past decade. Yet, the currently available experimental protocols used to isolate such lesions only allow to get structural information about linke ...

2012

Cooperative kinking at distant sites in mechanically stressed DNA

Davide Demurtas, Guillaume Witz, Julien Dorier, Andrzej Stasiak

In cells, DNA is routinely subjected to significant levels of bending and twisting. In some cases, such as under physiological levels of supercoiling, DNA can be so highly strained, that it transitions into non-canonical structural conformations that are c ...

Oxford University Press2011

Mechanisms of Disease: cancer stem cells - targeting the evil twin

Classical antineoplastic treatments such as chemotherapy or radiation can efficiently eradicate the majority of proliferating and genetically unstable malignant cells within neoplastic lesions. There is increasing evidence, however, that these regimens fre ...

2008

Engineering of the human O6-alkylguanine DNA alkyltransferase

Alexandre Juillerat

Recently, a new method for the specific covalent labeling of fusion proteins in vitro and in living cells has been developed. This method is based on the unusual mechanism of a DNA repair protein: the O6-alkylguanine DNA alkyltransferase (AGT). In addition ...

EPFL2005