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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-7-12
pubmed:abstractText
To characterize the process by which the mammalian nucleotide excision repair complex interacts with DNA to recognize and repair lesions, we have investigated the size and distribution of repair patches induced by human cell extracts in ultraviolet light-irradiated plasmid DNA. Repair synthesis was carried out in a buffer substituting biotinylated dUTP for dTTP, to allow repair patches to be detected by electron microscopy after streptavidin/colloidal gold labelling. Individual repair events on circular plasmids that had undergone repair synthesis in cell extracts were scored as gold particles bound specifically to irradiated molecules. Samples of over 2000 irradiated and unirradiated plasmids were counted. Repair synthesis at ultraviolet light photoproducts typically replaced about 30 nucleotides, since 69% of patches contained only one particle of 10 nm gold and 24% of patches contained two gold particles (each covering approx. 29 nucleotides). In addition, the ordering of repair events among damaged plasmids closely fitted a Poisson distribution, indicating that repair of lesions is achieved via a non-processive, random diffusion mechanism. This suggests that the repair complex is not intrinsically processive.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0022-2836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
231
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
251-60
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-5-1
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Electron microscopy of DNA excision repair patches produced by human cell extracts.
pubmed:affiliation
Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Clare Hall Laboratories South Mimms, Herts, U.K.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article