It was not known how xeroderma pigmentosum group C (XPC) protein, the primary initiator of global nucleotide excision repair, achieves its outstanding substrate versatility. Here, we analyzed the molecular pathology of a unique Trp690Ser substitution, which is the only reported missense mutation in xeroderma patients mapping to the evolutionary conserved region of XPC protein. The function of t...

Protein Description 939 amino acids. Expression Ubiquitous. Localisation Nuclear. Function Involved in the early recognition of DNA damage present in chromatine. Two proteins have been identified and implicated in (one of) the first steps of NER, i.e. the recognition of lesions in the DNA: the XPA gene product and the XPC gene product in complex with HR23B. This XPC-HR23B complex has been impli...

Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is a rare, autosomal recessive disorder of DNA repair characterized by sun sensitivity and UV radiation-induced skin and mucous membrane cancers. Initially described in 1874 by Moriz Kaposi in Vienna, nearly 100 years later, James Cleaver in San Francisco reported defective DNA repair in XP cells. This eventually provided the basis for a mechanistic link between sun e...

Xeroderma pigmentosum group F complementing factor; DNA-repair protein complementing XPF cells 905 amino acids; form a stable complex with the ERCC1 protein; The XPF protein and the ERCC1 protein form a complex that exhibits structure specific endonuclease activity that is responsible for the 5' incision during the NER reaction. XPF-ERCC1 also binds to XPA (through ERCC1) and to RPA (through XP...

IN the present article an account is given of a skin disease with ocular manifestations. At the beginning the skin disease was diagnosed as lentigenes and the eye-affection was suggested to be a melanoma bulbi. Observation of the clinical picture, however, and later familial investigations, gave clear evidence of a close connection between the two affections, and the condition became recognised...