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DNA REPAIR

Excision repair
Mismatch repair
Damage sensing

Excision repair

Review:
Friedberg, E. C. How nucleotide excision repair protects against cancer. Nature Rev. Cancer 1, 22-33 (2001)

Highlights:
· A molecular monkey wrench


Mismatch repair

Highlight:
· A perfect mismatch
· Caught short
· Mismatch repair comes to an end


Damage sensing

Reviews:
Skorski, T. Oncogenic tyrosine kinases and the DNA damage response. Nature Rev. Cancer. 2, 351-360 (2002)


D'Amours, D. & Jackson, S. P. The Mre11 complex: DNA repair meets checkpoint signalling. Nature Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 3, 317-327 (2002)

Zhou, B.-B. S. & Elledge, S. J. The DNA damage response: putting checkpoints in perspective. Nature 408, 433-439 (2000)

Highlights:
· A taxing question
· Breaking the cycle
· Damage control
· From damage to death
· The replication connection
· Split ends and hairpins