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ArticleJournal of nucleic acids2010

Base sequence context effects on nucleotide excision repair.

Yuqin Cai, Dinshaw J Patel, Suse Broyde, Nicholas E Geacintov

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Article in Journal of nucleic acids, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Local sequence context atFrontiers in molecular biosciences · 2025
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  6. DNA Repair in Haploid Context.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  13. Repair-Resistant DNA Lesions.Chemical research in toxicology · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yuqin CaiDepartment of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.
Dinshaw J Patel
Suse Broyde
Nicholas E Geacintov
New York University · USMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · US

Funding

Carcinogen-DNA Adducts: Topology, Conformation and Repair (Renewal)R01CA028038 · NCI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI BROYDE, SUSE · 1985 to 2014
$4.7M
DNA Lesion Structures: Mutagenicity and RepairR01CA075449 · NCI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI BROYDE, SUSE · 1997 to 2015
$4.3M
Impact of PAH-DNA Lesions on DNA Repair and ReplicationR01CA099194 · NCI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI GEACINTOV, NICHOLAS E · 2003 to 2012
$3.3M
REPLICATION OF OXIDATIVE LESIONS BY BYPASS POLYMERASESR01CA046533 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI PATEL, DINSHAW J · 1988 to 2009
$2.8M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA028038NCI NIH HHS R01 CA046533NCI NIH HHS R01 CA075449NCI NIH HHS R01 CA099194
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nucleotide excision repair (NER) plays a critical role in maintaining the integrity of the genome when damaged by bulky DNA lesions, since inefficient repair can cause mutations and human diseases notably cancer. The structural properties of DNA lesions that determine their relative susceptibilities to NER are therefore of great interest. As a model system, we have investigated the major mutagenic lesion derived from the environmental carcinogen benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P), 10S (+)-trans-anti-B[a]P-N(2)-dG in six different sequence contexts that differ in how the lesion is positioned in relation to nearby guanine amino groups. We have obtained molecular structural data by NMR and MD simulations, bending properties from gel electrophoresis studies, and NER data obtained from human HeLa cell extracts for our six investigated sequence contexts. This model system suggests that disturbed Watson-Crick base pairing is a better recognition signal than a flexible bend, and that these can act in concert to provide an enhanced signal. Steric hinderance between the minor groove-aligned lesion and nearby guanine amino groups determines the exact nature of the disturbances. Both nearest neighbor and more distant neighbor sequence contexts have an impact. Regardless of the exact distortions, we hypothesize that they provide a local thermodynamic destabilization signal for repair.

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PMID20871811
PMCPMC2943111
OpenAlexW1974665834

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