Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1981441 | DNA Repair | 2007 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
A large variety of DNA lesions induced by environmental agents or arising as an outcome of cellular metabolism are counteracted by a complex network of proteins that belong to the base excision repair/single strand break repair (BER/SSBR) processes. No matter whether the initial lesions are modified DNA bases or single-strand breaks with non-conventional termini these processes are completed either by replacement of a single (short-patch, SP) or more (long-patch, LP) nucleotides by different arrays of proteins. Here, the factors that are involved in the selection between SP- and LP-BER/SSBR are reviewed. The biological significance of these alternative subpathways is also presented as inferred from mutant mouse/cell models.
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Authors
Paola Fortini, Eugenia Dogliotti,