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Functions of yeast helicase Ssl2p that are essential for viability are also involved in protection from the toxicity of adriamycin.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jan 2004
Furuchi Takemitsu, Takahashi Tsutomu, Tanaka Shogo, Nitta Katsushi, Naganuma Akira
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We have found that, in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, overexpression of the DNA helicase Ssl2p confers resistance to adriamycin. Ssl2p is involved, as a subunit of the basic transcription factor TFIIH, in the initiation of transcription and in nucleotide-excision repair (NER), and this helicase is essential for the survival of yeast cells. An examination of the relationship between the known functions of...
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