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Base Excision Repair

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DNA glycosylase “flips out” bases from helix, scanning for damage and cleaves glycosyl bond connecting incorrect base with sugar.

2
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Nucleotide Excision Repair

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Multienzyme complex scans DNA for global distortions and cleaves phosphodiester bonds on either side of distortion. DNA helicase peels away lesion-containing strand

3
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Transcription-coupled Repair

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RNA polymerase stalls at lesions and directs repair machinery. Strand specific.

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Cockayne’s Syndrome

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Defect in transcription-coupled repair; RNA polymerase is permanently stalled at damage sites in important genes

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Methylated cytosines

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Deamination of methyl-C produces T mismatched with G; DNA glycosylase repairs error, but it is relatively ineffective - accounts for 1/3 of all point mutations

6
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Translesion polymerases

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Useful for cases of extensive damage to the cell; less accurate back up polymerases repair damage - but no proofreading ability

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Double-strand Break Repair

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Non-homologous end joining brings broken strands together, rejoined by DNA ligation - but one or more nucleotides will be lost

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What are 3 DNA damage checkpoints in the cell?

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If DNA damage is triggered:

  1. Entry from G1-S phase is blocked
  2. Progression through S phase is slowed
  3. Transition from G2-M phase is blocked
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ATM Protein

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Kinase that generates intracellular signals which alert cell to DNA damage and upregulate expression of DNA repair genes; mutations lead to ataxia telengiectasia

10
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Homologous recombination

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Genetic exchange between a pair of homologous DNA sequences which repairs double strand breaks and exchanges genetic information via crossover

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Hybridization/renaturation

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DNA double helix reforms from its separated single strands

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Heteroduplex DNA

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Double helix created from strands that originate from different molecules

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Loss of heterozygosity

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Non-functioning homolog used to “repair” other homolog