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ReviewGenomics, proteomics & bioinformatics2013

My journey to DNA repair.

Tomas Lindahl

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Review in Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. That's A Scientist Should Do-A Dialog with Tomas Lindahl.Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2019
    Article
  4. Review
  5. Oxidative DNA damage & repair: An introduction.Free radical biology & medicine · 2017
    Article
  6. Article
  7. Tautomerization-dependent recognition and excision of oxidation damage in base-excision DNA repair.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
    Article
  8. Profile of Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar, 2015 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
    Article
  9. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tomas LindahlCancer Research UK London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms EN6 3LD, United Kingdom. tomas.lindahl@cancer.org.uk
Cancer Research UK · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

I completed my medical studies at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm but have always been devoted to basic research. My longstanding interest is to understand fundamental DNA repair mechanisms in the fields of cancer therapy, inherited human genetic disorders and ancient DNA. I initially measured DNA decay, including rates of base loss and cytosine deamination. I have discovered several important DNA repair proteins and determined their mechanisms of action. The discovery of uracil-DNA glycosylase defined a new category of repair enzymes with each specialized for different types of DNA damage. The base excision repair pathway was first reconstituted with human proteins in my group. Cell-free analysis for mammalian nucleotide excision repair of DNA was also developed in my laboratory. I found multiple distinct DNA ligases in mammalian cells, and led the first genetic and biochemical work on DNA ligases I, III and IV. I discovered the mammalian exonucleases DNase III (TREX1) and IV (FEN1). Interestingly, expression of TREX1 was altered in some human autoimmune diseases. I also showed that the mutagenic DNA adduct O(6)-methylguanine (O(6)mG) is repaired without removing the guanine from DNA, identifying a surprising mechanism by which the methyl group is transferred to a residue in the repair protein itself. A further novel process of DNA repair discovered by my research group is the action of AlkB as an iron-dependent enzyme carrying out oxidative demethylation.

Indexed as

DNA RepairAnimalsDNA DamageDNA GlycosylasesDNA LigasesExodeoxyribonucleasesHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHumansUnited KingdomDNA GlycosylasesDNA LigasesExodeoxyribonucleases

Identifiers

PMID23453014
PMCPMC4357663
OpenAlexW2075869342

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