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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2014

Analysis of actively transcribed DNA repair using a transfection-based system.

Jean J Latimer

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jean J LatimerDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, 3301 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale-Davie, FL, 33314-7796, USA, jl1543@nova.edu.
Nova Southeastern University · US

Funding

DNA REPAIR AND BREAST CANCERR29CA071894 · NCI · MAGEE-WOMEN'S RES INST AND FOUNDATION · PI LATIMER, JEAN J · 1997 to 2001
$212k
NCI NIH HHS R29 CA071894
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Host cell reactivation (HCR) is a transfection-based assay in which intact cells repair damage localized to exogenous DNA. This chapter provides instructions for the application of this technique, using as an exemplar UV irradiation as a source of damage to a luciferase reporter plasmid. Through measurement of the activity of a successfully transcribed and translated reporter enzyme, the amount of damaged plasmid that a cell can "reactivate" or repair and express can be quantitated. Different DNA repair pathways can be analyzed by this technique by damaging the reporter plasmid in different ways. Since it involves repair of a transcriptionally active gene, when applied to UV damage the HCR assay measures the capacity of the host cells to perform transcription-coupled repair, a subset of the overall nucleotide excision repair pathway that specifically targets transcribed gene sequences.

Indexed as

DNA RepairAnimalsBacteriophagesCell LineGenes, ReporterHumansLuciferases, FireflyPlasmidsTransfectionUltraviolet RaysLuciferases, Firefly

Identifiers

PMID24623251
PMCPMC4301736
OpenAlexW43118159

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