PostExcision Events in Human Nucleotide Excision Repair.
PostExcision Events in Human Nucleotide Excision Repair.
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DOI:
10.1111/php.12641
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发表时间:
2017-01
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Hu J
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作者:
Kemp MG;Hu J
The nucleotide excision repair system removes a wide variety of DNA lesions from the human genome, including photoproducts induced by ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths of sunlight. A defining feature of nucleotide excision repair is its dual incision mechanism, in which two nucleolytic incision events on the damaged strand of DNA at sites bracketing the lesion generate a damage-containing DNA oligonucleotide and a single-stranded DNA gap approximately 30 nucleotides in length. Although the early events of nucleotide excision repair, which include lesion recognition and the dual incisions, have been explored in detail and are reasonably well understood, the fate of the single-stranded gaps and excised oligonucleotide products of repair have not been as extensively examined. In this review, recent findings that address these less-explored aspects of nucleotide excision repair are discussed and support the concept that post-incision gap and excised oligonucleotide processing are critical steps in the cellular response to DNA damage induced by UV light and other environmental carcinogens. Defects in these latter stages of repair lead to cell death and other DNA damage signaling responses and may therefore contribute to a number of human disease states associated with exposure to UV wavelengths of sunlight, including skin cancer, aging, and autoimmunity. Schematic of human nucleotide excision repair. UV induces the formation of UV photoproducts in DNA, including a representative thymine dimer indicated in the figure. Two nucleolytic incision events take place ~20 ± 5 phosphodiester bonds 5’ and 6 ± 3 nt phosphodiester bonds 3’ of the UV photoproduct to generate an ~30-nt-long gapped DNA duplex and an 30-nt-long damage-containing DNA oligonucleotide. Completion of the DNA repair reaction requires DNA repair synthesis and ligation to fill in the gap and degradation of the excised, damage-containing DNA oligonucleotide.