Binding of transcription factors creates hot spots for UV photoproducts in vivo

GP Pfeifer, R Drouin, AD Riggs… - Molecular and cellular …, 1992 - Am Soc Microbiol
Abstract Cyclobutane dipyrimidines and< 6-4> dipyrimidines are the two major classes of
mutagenic DNA photoproducts produced by UV irradiation of cells. We developed a method …

UV light as a footprinting agent: modulation of UV-induced DNA damage by transcription factors bound at the promoters of three human genes

S Tornaletti, GP Pfeifer - Journal of molecular biology, 1995 - Elsevier
Protein-DNA interactions in mammalian cells can be analyzed at the nucleotide level of
resolution by genomic sequencing techniques. The most sensitive genomic sequencing …

Activation of mammalian gene expression by the UV component of sunlight–from models to reality

RM Tyrrell - Bioessays, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Ultraviolet radiation activates the expression of a wide variety of genes, by pathways which
differ between the short non‐solar ultraviolet C (UVC) wavelengths, which are strongly …

Cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers are responsible for the vast majority of mutations induced by UVB irradiation in mammalian cells

YH You, DH Lee, JH Yoon, S Nakajima, A Yasui… - Journal of Biological …, 2001 - ASBMB
The most prevalent DNA lesions induced by UVB are the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers
(CPDs) and the pyrimidine (6-4) pyrimidone photoproducts ((6-4) PPs). It has been a long …

UV light-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers are mutagenic in mammalian cells

M Protić-Sabljić, N Tuteja, PJ Munson… - … and cellular biology, 1986 - Taylor & Francis
We used a simian virus 40-based shuttle vector plasmid, pZ189, to determine the role of
pyrimidine cyclobutane dimers in UV light-induced mutagenesis in monkey cells. The vector …

The DNA damage spectrum produced by simulated sunlight

JH Yoon, CS Lee, TR O'Connor, A Yasui… - Journal of molecular …, 2000 - Elsevier
The mutagenic effects of ultraviolet and solar irradiation are thought to be due to the
formation of DNA photoproducts, most notably cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) and …

In vivo mapping of a DNA adduct at nucleotide resolution: detection of pyrimidine (6-4) pyrimidone photoproducts by ligation-mediated polymerase chain reaction.

GP Pfeifer, R Drouin, AD Riggs… - Proceedings of the …, 1991 - National Acad Sciences
DNA adducts in unique sequences along the mammalian genome are mapped in vivo at
single-nucleotide resolution. Pyrimidine (6-4) pyrimidone photoproducts [(6-4) …

Analysis of repair of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers and pyrimidine 6-4 pyrimidone photoproducts in transcriptionally active and inactive genes in Chinese hamster …

MP Vreeswijk, A Van Hoffen, BE Westland… - Journal of Biological …, 1994 - ASBMB
Irradiation of cells with short wave ultraviolet light (UV-C) induces both cyclobutane
pyrimidine dimers (CPD) as well as pyrimidine 6-4 pyrimidone photoproducts (6-4 PP). We …

Photoproduct frequency is not the major determinant of UV base substitution hot spots or cold spots in human cells.

DE Brash, S Seetharam, KH Kraemer… - Proceedings of the …, 1987 - National Acad Sciences
The role of UV radiation-induced photoproducts in initiating base substitution mutations in
human cells was examined by measuring photoproduct frequency distributions and …

Individual determination of the yield of the main UV-induced dimeric pyrimidine photoproducts in DNA suggests a high mutagenicity of CC photolesions

T Douki, J Cadet - Biochemistry, 2001 - ACS Publications
Bipyrimidine photoproducts induced in DNA by UVB radiation include cyclobutane dimers,(6-
4) photoproducts, and their related Dewar valence isomers. Even though these lesions have …