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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America1990

Molecular mechanisms of DNA repair inhibition by caffeine.

C P Selby, A Sancar

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1990. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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27citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 121 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

C P SelbyDepartment of Biochemistry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill 27599.
A Sancar
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF UVRABC EXCISION NUCLEASER01GM032833 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI SANCAR, AZIZ · 1985 to 2015
$8.9M
STRUCTURE/FUNCTION OF DNA PHOTOLYASER01GM031082 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI SANCAR, AZIZ · 1985 to 2015
$4.9M
STRUCTURE/FUNCTION OF DNA PHOTOLYASER37GM031082 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI SANCAR, AZIZ · 1995 to 2004
$2.6M
ACTION MECHANISMS OF UVRABC EXCINUCLEASEF32ES005486 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI SELBY, CHRISTOPHER P · 1989 to 1989
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NIEHS NIH HHS ES05486NIGMS NIH HHS GM31082NIGMS NIH HHS GM32833
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Caffeine potentiates the mutagenic and lethal effects of genotoxic agents. It is thought that this is due, at least in some organisms, to inhibition of DNA repair. However, direct evidence for inhibition of repair enzymes has been lacking. Using purified Escherichia coli DNA photolyase and (A)BC excinuclease, we show that the drug inhibits photoreactivation and nucleotide excision repair by two different mechanisms. Caffeine inhibits photoreactivation by interfering with the specific binding of photolyase to damaged DNA, and it inhibits nucleotide excision repair by promoting nonspecific binding of the damage-recognition subunit, UvrA, of (A)BC excinuclease. A number of other intercalators, including acriflavin and ethidium bromide, appear to inhibit the excinuclease by a similar mechanism--that is, by trapping the UvrA subunit in nonproductive complexes on undamaged DNA.

Indexed as

Escherichia coli ProteinsCaffeineDeoxyribodipyrimidine Photo-LyaseDeoxyribonuclease IDNA RepairDNA, SuperhelicalEndodeoxyribonucleasesEscherichia coliKineticsProtein BindingUltraviolet RaysCaffeineDeoxyribodipyrimidine Photo-LyaseDeoxyribonuclease IDNA, SuperhelicalEndodeoxyribonucleasesendodeoxyribonuclease uvrABCEscherichia coli Proteins

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PMID2185474
PMCPMC53933
OpenAlexW1985369885

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