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SUBMITTER: Coin F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC108975 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Coin F F Frit P P Viollet B B Salles B B Egly J M JM
Molecular and cellular biology 19980701 7
DNA damage recognition by basal transcription factors follows different mechanisms. Using transcription-competition, nitrocellulose filter binding, and DNase I footprinting assays, we show that, although the general transcription factor TFIIH is able to target any kind of lesion which can be repaired by the nucleotide excision repair pathway, TATA binding protein (TBP)-TFIID is more selective in damage recognition. Only genotoxic agents which are able to induce kinked DNA structures similar to t ...[more]