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SUBMITTER: Itoh T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC207631 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Itoh Toshiki T O'Shea Cristin C Linn Stuart S
Molecular and cellular biology 20031101 21
Tumor suppressor p53 controls cell cycle progression and apoptosis following DNA damage, thus minimizing carcinogenesis. Mutations in the human DDB2 gene generate the E subgroup of xeroderma pigmentosum (XP-E). We report here that XP-E strains are defective in UV irradiation-induced apoptosis due to severely reduced basal and UV-induced p53 levels. These defects are restored by infection with a p53 cDNA expression construct or with a DDB2 expression construct if and only if it contains intron 4, ...[more]