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Caffeine could not efficiently sensitize homologous recombination repair-deficient cells to ionizing radiation-induced killing.
Radiation research - 1 Mar 2003
Wang Huichen, Wang Xiang, Iliakis George, Wang Ya
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Caffeine inhibits ATM and ATR, two important checkpoint regulators, abolishes ionizing radiation-induced checkpoint response, and radiosensitizes cells. Radiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are repaired by two major processes, homologous recombination repair (HRR) and nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ). It remains unclear which repair process, HRR or NHEJ, is affected when the checkpoint responses are...
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