DNA Repair, DNA Replication, and UV Mutagenesis

DNA Damage, Mutagenesis, and DNA Repair

This special issue of the Journal of Nucleic Acids is dedicated to DNA damage and two important biological consequences provoked by such damage: lesion repair and lesion-induced mutagenesis. These phenomena have attracted broad interest among a large community of scientists that cross disciplines frommathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology to clinical scientists. The importance of DNA dama...

p21 differentially regulates DNA replication and DNA-repair-associated processes after UV irradiation.

Although p21 upregulation is required to block cell-cycle progression following many types of genotoxic insult, UV irradiation triggers p21 proteolysis. The significance of the increased p21 turnover is unclear and might be associated with DNA repair. While the role of p21 in nucleotide excision repair (NER) remains controversial, recent reports have explored its effect on translesion DNA synth...

Role of Nicotinamide in DNA Damage, Mutagenesis, and DNA Repair

Nicotinamide is a water-soluble amide form of niacin (nicotinic acid or vitamin B3). Both niacin and nicotinamide are widely available in plant and animal foods, and niacin can also be endogenously synthesized in the liver from dietary tryptophan. Nicotinamide is also commercially available in vitamin supplements and in a range of cosmetic, hair, and skin preparations. Nicotinamide is the prima...

UV damage, DNA repair and skin carcinogenesis.

Skin cancer is unique among human cancers in its etiology, accessibility and the volume of detailed knowledge now assembled concerning its molecular mechanisms of origin. The major carcinogenic agent for most skin cancers is well established as solar ultraviolet light. This is absorbed in DNA with the formation of UV-specific dipyrimidine photoproducts. These can be repaired by nucleotide excis...

Laboratory Activity to Promote Student Understanding of UV Mutagenesis and DNA Repair†