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DNA repair

Cellular response to DNA damage, including recognition & repair. Not all DNA damage is recognized & repaired; tolerance to DNA damage is recognized, but poorly understood. Different types of DNA lesions are repaired by different mechanisms. Classification: In mammalian systems, 4 types of DNA repair are recognized: 1) DNA mismatch repair 2) DNA excision repair 3) DNA double-strand break repair 4) DNA photoreactivation repair Pathology: Human Disorders of DNA Repair include: 1) ataxia telangiectasia 2) Xeroderma pigmentosum 3) trichothiodystrophy 4) hereditary non polyposis colon cancer 5) Li-Fraumeni syndrome 6) Cockayne syndrome 7) Bloom's syndrome 8) Fanconi's anemia 9) early-onset acute myeloid leukemia [2]

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DNA damage

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DNA repair (GO:0006281)

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DNA base excision repair DNA double-strand break repair DNA mismatch repair; post-replication repair; DNA loop repair DNA photoreactivation repair mitochondrial DNA repair nucleotide excision repair

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biochemistry

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References

  1. DNA Repair & Mutagenesis, Freidberg et al, ASM Press, Washington DC, 1995
  2. O'Neil A DNA Repair Mutations Lead to AML Predisposition. In early research, germline mutations shut down a mechanism that guards against harmful mutations that increase leukemia risk. MedPage Today, ASCO Reading Room. Feb 21, 2018 https://www.medpagetoday.com/reading-room/asco/hematologic-malignancies/71284 - Sanders MA, Chew E, Flensburg C et al Germline loss of MBD4 predisposes to leukaemia due to a mutagenic cascade driven by 5mC. bioRxiv preprint first posted online Nov. 1, 2017 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/11/01/180588.full.pdf