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Quantitative analysis of translesion DNA synthesis across a benzo[a]pyrene-guanine adduct in mammalian cells: the role of DNA polymerase kappa.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 17 Dec 2004
Avkin Sharon, Goldsmith Moshe, Velasco-Miguel Susana, Geacintov Nicholas, Friedberg Errol C, Livneh Zvi
Abstract excerpt
Replication across unrepaired DNA lesions in mammalian cells is effected primarily by specialized, low fidelity DNA polymerases. We studied translesion DNA synthesis (TLS) across a benzo[a]pyrene-guanine (BP-G) adduct, a major mutagenic DNA lesion generated by tobacco smoke. This was done using a quantitative assay that measures TLS indirectly, by measuring the recovery of gapped plasmids transfected into...
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