Dynamic alternative DNA structures in biology and disease

G Wang, KM Vasquez - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Repetitive elements in the human genome, once considered 'junk DNA', are now known to
adopt more than a dozen alternative (that is, non-B) DNA structures, such as self-annealed …

Mechanisms of DNA damage, repair, and mutagenesis

N Chatterjee, GC Walker - Environmental and molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Living organisms are continuously exposed to a myriad of DNA damaging agents that can
impact health and modulate disease‐states. However, robust DNA repair and damage …

Metal complex interactions with DNA

BJ Pages, DL Ang, EP Wright, JR Aldrich-Wright - Dalton transactions, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Increasing numbers of DNA structures are being revealed using biophysical, spectroscopic
and genomic methods. The diversity of transition metal complexes is also growing, as the …

DNA interstrand crosslink repair and cancer

AJ Deans, SC West - Nature reviews cancer, 2011 - nature.com
Interstrand crosslinks (ICLs) are highly toxic DNA lesions that prevent transcription and
replication by inhibiting DNA strand separation. Agents that induce ICLs were one of the …

DNA mismatch repair and its many roles in eukaryotic cells

D Liu, G Keijzers, LJ Rasmussen - Mutation Research/Reviews in Mutation …, 2017 - Elsevier
DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is an important DNA repair pathway that plays critical roles in
DNA replication fidelity, mutation avoidance and genome stability, all of which contribute …

Advances in understanding the complex mechanisms of DNA interstrand cross-link repair

C Clauson, OD Schärer… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2013 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
DNA interstrand cross-links (ICLs) are lesions caused by a variety of endogenous
metabolites, environmental exposures, and cancer chemotherapeutic agents that have two …

Non-B DNA structure-induced genetic instability and evolution

J Zhao, A Bacolla, G Wang, KM Vasquez - Cellular and molecular life …, 2010 - Springer
Repetitive DNA motifs are abundant in the genomes of various species and have the
capacity to adopt non-canonical (ie, non-B) DNA structures. Several non-B DNA structures …

FAN1 modifies Huntington's disease progression by stabilizing the expanded HTT CAG repeat

R Goold, M Flower, DH Moss, C Medway… - Human molecular …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by an
expanded CAG repeat in the huntingtin (HTT) gene. CAG repeat length explains around half …

Repair of cisplatin-induced DNA interstrand crosslinks by a replication-independent pathway involving transcription-coupled repair and translesion synthesis

M Enoiu, J Jiricny, OD Schärer - Nucleic acids research, 2012 - academic.oup.com
DNA interstrand crosslinks (ICLs) formed by antitumor agents, such as cisplatin or mitomycin
C, are highly cytotoxic DNA lesions. Their repair is believed to be triggered primarily by the …

Impact of alternative DNA structures on DNA damage, DNA repair, and genetic instability

G Wang, KM Vasquez - DNA repair, 2014 - Elsevier
Repetitive genomic sequences can adopt a number of alternative DNA structures that differ
from the canonical B-form duplex (ie non-B DNA). These non-B DNA-forming sequences …