TY - JOUR
T1 - DNA damage-induced mutagenesis
T2 - a novel target for cancer prevention.
AU - Wang, Z.
PY - 2001/12
Y1 - 2001/12
N2 - Tolerance to some degree of unrepaired DNA damage is crucial for cell survival-more specifically, for the sustained functionality of the DNA replication machinery-in the presence of adverse (genotoxic) conditions. At least two mechanisms ensure such tolerance: template switching and lesion bypass. Lesion bypass, whereby unrepaired damaged DNA serves as template, involves the Y family of DNA polymerases; lesion bypass can be error-free or error-prone, depending on the nucleotide incorporated during translesion synthesis. Error-prone lesion bypass constitutes a major mechanism of mutagenesis and, in eukaryotes, is primarily effected by the DNA polymerase zeta (Polzeta) pathway. A relationship between the Y family polymerases and the Polzeta pathway is thus implicated, and conforms to the two-polymerase two-step model of lesion bypass. Based on the mutagenesis hypothesis of cancer formation, DNA damage-induced mutagenesis and its underlying molecular biology offer an intriguing potential target for cancer prevention.
AB - Tolerance to some degree of unrepaired DNA damage is crucial for cell survival-more specifically, for the sustained functionality of the DNA replication machinery-in the presence of adverse (genotoxic) conditions. At least two mechanisms ensure such tolerance: template switching and lesion bypass. Lesion bypass, whereby unrepaired damaged DNA serves as template, involves the Y family of DNA polymerases; lesion bypass can be error-free or error-prone, depending on the nucleotide incorporated during translesion synthesis. Error-prone lesion bypass constitutes a major mechanism of mutagenesis and, in eukaryotes, is primarily effected by the DNA polymerase zeta (Polzeta) pathway. A relationship between the Y family polymerases and the Polzeta pathway is thus implicated, and conforms to the two-polymerase two-step model of lesion bypass. Based on the mutagenesis hypothesis of cancer formation, DNA damage-induced mutagenesis and its underlying molecular biology offer an intriguing potential target for cancer prevention.
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M3 - Review article
C2 - 14993366
AN - SCOPUS:0001427251
SN - 1534-0384
VL - 1
SP - 269
EP - 281
JO - Molecular Interventions
JF - Molecular Interventions
IS - 5
ER -