At the core of nucleotide excision repair

J Kuper, C Kisker - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is unique in its ability to identify and remove vastly different
lesions from DNA. Recent advances in the structural characterization of complexes involved …

A scanning-to-incision switch in TFIIH-XPG induced by DNA damage licenses nucleotide excision repair

A Bralić, M Tehseen, MA Sobhy, CL Tsai… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is critical for removing bulky DNA base lesions and
avoiding diseases. NER couples lesion recognition by XPC to strand separation by XPB and …

STK19 facilitates the clearance of lesion-stalled RNAPII during transcription-coupled DNA repair

D van den Heuvel, M Rodríguez-Martínez… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Transcription-coupled DNA repair (TCR) removes bulky DNA lesions impeding RNA
polymerase II (RNAPII) transcription. Recent studies have outlined the stepwise assembly of …

TLK1-mediated RAD54 phosphorylation spatio-temporally regulates Homologous Recombination Repair

I Ghosh, Y Kwon, AB Shabestari… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Environmental agents like ionizing radiation (IR) and chemotherapeutic drugs can cause
severe damage to the DNA, often in the form of double-strand breaks (DSBs). Remaining …

Differing structures and dynamics of two photolesions portray verification differences by the human XPD helicase

I Fu, NE Geacintov, S Broyde - Nucleic acids research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Ultraviolet light generates cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) and pyrimidine 6− 4
pyrimidone (6− 4PP) photoproducts that cause skin malignancies if not repaired by …

XPD stalled on cross-linked DNA provides insight into damage verification

J Kuper, T Hove, S Maidl, H Neitz, F Sauer… - Nature Structural & …, 2024 - nature.com
The superfamily 2 helicase XPD is a central component of the general transcription factor II
H (TFIIH), which is essential for transcription and nucleotide excision DNA repair (NER) …

The nucleotide excision repair proteins through the lens of molecular dynamics simulations

ÉSM Pinto, MJ Krause, M Dorn, BC Feltes - DNA repair, 2023 - Elsevier
Mutations that affect the proteins responsible for the nucleotide excision repair (NER)
pathway can lead to diseases such as xeroderma pigmentosum, trichothiodystrophy …

Characterization of human XPD helicase activity with single-molecule magnetic tweezers

C Mao, M Mills - Biophysical Journal, 2024 - cell.com
XPD helicase is a DNA-unwinding enzyme involved in DNA repair. As part of TFIIH, XPD
opens a repair bubble in DNA for access by proteins in the nucleotide excision repair …

Variation in ultraviolet-B (UV-B)-induced DNA damage repair mechanisms in plants and humans: an avenue for developing protection against skin photoaging

GS Mmbando - International Journal of Radiation Biology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose The increasing amounts of ultraviolet-B (UV-B) light in our surroundings have
sparked worries about the possible effects on humans and plants. The detrimental effects of …

[PDF][PDF] NAR Breakthrough Article A scanning-to-incision switch in TFIIH-XPG induced

MT Amer Bralic, MA Sobhy, CL Tsai… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - repository.kaust.edu.sa
Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is critical for removing bulky DNA base lesions and
avoiding diseases. NER couples lesion recognition by XPC to strand separation by XPB and …