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Asymmetric repair of UV damage in nucleosomes imposes a DNA strand polarity on somatic mutations in skin cancer.
Genome research - 1 Jan 2020
Mao Peng, Smerdon Michael J, Roberts Steven A, Wyrick John J
Abstract excerpt
Nucleosomes inhibit excision repair of DNA damage caused by ultraviolet (UV) light, and it has been generally assumed that repair inhibition is equivalent on both sides of the nucleosome dyad. Here, we use genome-wide repair data to show that repair of UV damage in nucleosomes is asymmetric. In yeast, nucleosomes inhibit nucleotide excision repair (NER) of the nontranscribed strand (NTS) of genes in an asymmetric...
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