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SUBMITTER: Williams HL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3666337 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Williams Hannah L HL Gottesman Max E ME Gautier Jean J
Molecular cell 20120531 1
DNA interstrand crosslinks (ICLs) are cytotoxic lesions that covalently link opposite strands of the DNA helix and block DNA unwinding. ICLs are repaired during and outside S phase, and replication-independent ICL repair (RIR) is critical to maintain genomic integrity and to allow transcription in nondividing or slowly dividing cells. Here, we show that the Y family DNA polymerase kappa (Pol κ) is essential for RIR of a site-specific ICL lesion in Xenopus egg extracts, and that both its catalyti ...[more]