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SUBMITTER: Jasti VP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3092667 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jasti Vijay P VP Das Rajat S RS Hilton Benjamin A BA Weerasooriya Savithri S Zou Yue Y Basu Ashis K AK
Biochemistry 20110425 19
8,5'-Cyclopurines, making up an important class of ionizing radiation-induced tandem DNA damage, are repaired only by nucleotide excision repair (NER). They accumulate in NER-impaired cells, as in Cockayne syndrome group B and certain Xeroderma Pigmentosum patients. A plasmid containing (5'S)-8,5'-cyclo-2'-deoxyguanosine (S-cdG) was replicated in Escherichia coli with specific DNA polymerase knockouts. Viability was <1% in the wild-type strain, which increased to 5.5% with SOS. Viability decreas ...[more]