Slow Repair of Pyrimidine Dimers at p53 Mutation Hotspots in Skin Cancer

S Tornaletti, GP Pfeifer - Science, 1994 - science.org
… To study the relation between repair and mutation hotspots, we examined the repair efficien…
human skin cancers (3). The CPD signal at these positions was sufficient to allow repair rates …

Mechanisms of UV-induced mutations and skin cancer

GP Pfeifer - Genome instability & disease, 2020 - Springer
… excision repair pathway, which is defective in rare genetic skin … A major role in inducing
sunlight-dependent skin cancer … ) and in settings where repair of CPDs is relatively slow. …

Deciphering UV‐induced DNA damage responses to prevent and treat skin cancer

JW Lee, K Ratnakumar, KF Hung… - Photochemistry and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… delayed repair (heterochromatin) had a higher frequency of cancer-related mutations (112).
This high frequency of mutations in heterochromatin may be attributable to slow repair in …

Asymmetric repair of UV damage in nucleosomes imposes a DNA strand polarity on somatic mutations in skin cancer

P Mao, MJ Smerdon, SA Roberts, JJ Wyrick - Genome research, 2020 - genome.cshlp.org
… mutations in repair-proficient and repair-deficient skin cancers, … of repair affect UV mutagenesis
in human skin cancers. … generally required for repair of the NTS and that slower repair of …

TP53 mutations in human skin cancers

G Giglia‐Mari, A Sarasin - Human mutation, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… Two subpathways of repair have been demonstrated: the slow global genome … We must
point out that because XP patients, due to their repair deficiency, develop numerous skin cancers

Unraveling the molecular pathway from sunlight to skin cancer

JS Taylor - Accounts of chemical research, 1994 - ACS Publications
skin cancer by damaging the DNA comes from a rare genetic disease, xeroderma pigmentosum,
which is characterized by defects in the ability of cells to repair … 10 times slower in both …

The interdependence of skin aging, skin cancer, and DNA repair capacity: a novel perspective with therapeutic implications

DA Goukassian, BA Gilchrest - Rejuvenation research, 2004 - liebertpub.com
… Moreover, we have shown that the age-associated slowing of removal of UVinduced DNA
… incidence of skin cancer among the elderly. DNA REPAIR CAPACITY IS INDUCIBLE …

Control of skin cancer by the circadian rhythm

S Gaddameedhi, CP Selby… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
repair rate, we find that mice exposed to UV radiation (UVR) at 4:00 AM display a decreased
latency and about a fivefold increased multiplicity of skin cancerrepair is predictably slower

Recurrent noncoding mutations in skin cancers: UV damage susceptibility or repair inhibition as primary driver?

SA Roberts, AJ Brown, JJ Wyrick - Bioessays, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… effects of nucleosomes on repair inhibition and UV damage formation, and their potential
contributions to somatic mutations in skin cancer. A) NER occurs more slowly near the central …

Evidence that dysregulated DNA mismatch repair characterizes human nonmelanoma skin cancer

LC Young, J Listgarten, MJ Trotter… - British Journal of …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… Results We found that subsets of these 10 MMR protein measures were increased in
nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) compared with normal epidermal samples; this was particularly …