Nucleotide excision repair in higher eukaryotes: Mechanism of primary damage recognition in global genome repair

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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is one of the major DNA repair pathways in eukaryotic cells that counteract the formation of genetic damage. NER removes structurally diverse lesions such as pyrimidine dimers, arising upon UV irradiation, and bulky chemical adducts, arising upon exposure to carcinogens and some chemotherapeutic drugs. NER defects lead to severe diseases, including some forms of cancer. In view of the broad substrate specificity of NER, it is of interest to understand how a certain set of proteins recognizes various DNA lesions in the contest of a large excess of intact DNA. This review focuses on DNA damage recognition, the key and, as yet, most questionable step of NER. Understanding of mechanism of this step of NER may give a key contribution to study of similar processes of DNA damage recognition (base excision repair, mismatch repair) and regulation of assembly of various DNA repair machines. The major models of primary damage recognition and pre-incision complex assembly are considered. The model of a sequential loading of repair proteins on damaged DNA seems most reasonable in the light of the available data. The possible contribution of affinity labeling technique in study of this process is discussed.

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Rechkunova, N. I., & Lavrik, O. I. (2015). Nucleotide excision repair in higher eukaryotes: Mechanism of primary damage recognition in global genome repair. Subcellular Biochemistry, 50, 251–277. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3471-7_13

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