Alternative non-homologous end-joining: error-prone DNA repair as cancer's achilles' heel

D Caracciolo, C Riillo, MT Di Martino, P Tagliaferri… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
… synthesis, which generates sufficiently long de novo microhomologies … levels of core C-NHEJ
components such as Artemis and DNA ligase IV were downregulated while DNA ligase III

Structural basis of long-range to short-range synaptic transition in NHEJ

S Chen, L Lee, T Naila, S Fishbain, A Wang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PKcs), DNA ligase IV (… Third, we identified two
conserved loops in the middle HEAT … The resolution of the linker loop was not good enough to …

The essential elements for the noncovalent association of two DNA ends during NHEJ synapsis

B Zhao, G Watanabe, MJ Morten, DA Reid… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
… plus XRCC4:DNA ligase IV are necessary and sufficient to … Moreover, we would expect a
higher transition rate from low E … , we propose that up to three XLF dimers at the DNA ends may …

Repair of DNA double-strand breaks by the nonhomologous end joining pathway

BM Stinson, JJ Loparo - Annual review of biochemistry, 2021 - annualreviews.org
… end joining (NHEJ), which pairs DNA ends in a multiprotein … Ultimately, DNA ligase IV (LIG4),
which forms a constitutive … (80), supporting the idea that sufficient XLF tail length appears to …

Structural mechanism of DNA-end synapsis in the non-homologous end joining pathway for repairing double-strand breaks: Bridge over troubled ends

Q Wu - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2019 - portlandpress.com
… helicase and DNA polymerases λ and μ) and DNA ligase IV (… were found to be sufficient
for binding to DNA-PKcs through … The NHEJ specific DNA ligase LigIV contains an N-terminal …

Non-homologous end joining: advances and frontiers

K Yang, R Guo, D Xu - Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica, 2016 - academic.oup.com
… damaged DNA overhangs [42] but also bridges DNA ligases to … DNA Lig4 and to play an
essential role in facilitating NHEJ, … sufficient to complete the repair without the need of all NHEJ

The importance of DNAPKcs for blunt DNA end joining is magnified when XLF is weakened

M Cisneros-Aguirre, FW Lopezcolorado, LJ Tsai… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
… /80 (KU), XRCC4, DNA Ligase 4 (LIG4), XLF, and DNAPKcs … bridge DNA ends via interactions
with other proteins in the C-NHEJ … To test this hypothesis, we examined three sites in the …

Nonhomologous DNA end joining of nucleosomal substrates in a purified system

CA Gerodimos, G Watanabe, MR Lieber - DNA repair, 2021 - Elsevier
… biochemical NHEJ system to compare the joining of free DNADNA ligase IV were purified
from High Five cells using three-… DSB DNA ends at an already accessible site is not sufficient

[PDF][PDF] PAXX is an accessory c-NHEJ factor that associates with Ku70 and has overlapping functions with XLF

SK Tadi, C Tellier-Lebègue, C Nemoz, P Drevet… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
… kinase catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs), XRCC4, DNA Ligase 4 (LIG4)… These core factors are
sufficient to recognize, align, and … -bp DNA duplex with a three-way junction comprising a 4-bp …

The flexible and iterative steps within the NHEJ pathway

G Watanabe, MR Lieber - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
… directly ligatable by the DNA ligase 4 complex (with XRCC4 and … sufficiently far apart, any of
the three eukaryotic DNA ligases … permit adequate space for this complex to bind either DNA