Dna damage diagram. For more information log. Nucleotide excision repair ner is a particularly important excision mechanism that removes dna damage induced by ultraviolet light uv. Hier sollte eine beschreibung angezeigt werden diese seite laesst dies jedoch nicht zu. Na damage is an alteration in the chemical structure of dna such as a break in a strand of dna a base missing from the backbone of dna or a chemically cha.
Dna damage and repair summary 1defects in repair cause disease 2common types of dna damage 3dna repair pathways direct enzymatic repair base excision repair nucleotide excision repair mismatch repair double strand break repair non homologous end joining homologous recombination dna repair defects cause disease. C u. Mechanisms of dna damage repair and mutagenesis. When human cells are fused with rodent cells the human chromosomes are preferentially lost from the hybrid cells so that hybrid cell lines containing only one human chromosomeor even a part of a human chromosome can be produced.
The dna in a human cell undergoes several thousand to a million damaging events per day generated by both external exogenous and internal metabolic endogenous processes. 1department of biology massachusetts institute of technology cambridge massachusetts. Dna damage is an alteration in the chemical structure of dna such as a break in a strand of dna a base missing from the backbone of dna or a chemically changed base such as 8 ohdg. Chatterjee n1 walker gc1.
Dna damage and repair damage to cellular dna is involved in mutagenesis and the development of cancer. Dna damage can occur naturally or via environmental factors. Polymerase chain reaction is used to amplify human specific dna sequences. Uv dna damage results in bulky dna adducts these adducts are mostly thymine dimers and 64 photoproducts.