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ArticleJournal of nucleic acids2010

Formation and repair of tobacco carcinogen-derived bulky DNA adducts.

Bo Hang

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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 52 papers.

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52citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 99 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bo HangLife Sciences Division, Department of Cancer and DNA Damage Responses, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · US

Funding

HUMAN LYCOSYLASE REPAIR OF CYCLIC ADDUCTSR01CA072079 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIF-LAWRENC BERKELEY LAB · PI HANG, BO · 1996 to 2005
$2.1M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA072079
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA adducts play a central role in chemical carcinogenesis. The analysis of formation and repair of smoking-related DNA adducts remains particularly challenging as both smokers and nonsmokers exposed to smoke are repetitively under attack from complex mixtures of carcinogens such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and N-nitrosamines. The bulky DNA adducts, which usually have complex structure, are particularly important because of their biological relevance. Several known cellular DNA repair pathways have been known to operate in human cells on specific types of bulky DNA adducts, for example, nucleotide excision repair, base excision repair, and direct reversal involving O(6)-alkylguanine DNA alkyltransferase or AlkB homologs. Understanding the mechanisms of adduct formation and repair processes is critical for the assessment of cancer risk resulting from exposure to cigarette smoke, and ultimately for developing strategies of cancer prevention. This paper highlights the recent progress made in the areas concerning formation and repair of bulky DNA adducts in the context of tobacco carcinogen-associated genotoxic and carcinogenic effects.

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PMID21234336
PMCPMC3017938
OpenAlexW1984938351

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