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Saccharomyces cerevisiae-based system for studying clustered DNA damages

Journal Article · · Radiation and Environmental Biophysics
DNA-damaging agents can induce clustered lesions or multiply damaged sites (MDSs) on the same or opposing DNA strands. In the latter, attempts to repair MDS can generate closely opposed single-strand break intermediates that may convert non-lethal or mutagenic base damage into double-strand breaks (DSBs). We constructed a diploid S. cerevisiae yeast strain with a chromosomal context targeted by integrative DNA fragments carrying different damages to determine whether closely opposed base damages are converted to DSBs following the outcomes of the homologous recombination repair pathway. As a model of MDS, we studied clustered uracil DNA damages with a known location and a defined distance separating the lesions. The system we describe might well be extended to assessing the repair of MDSs with different compositions, and to most of the complex DNA lesions induced by physical and chemical agents.
Research Organization:
BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY (BNL)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE - Office Of Science
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-98CH10886
OSTI ID:
1001745
Report Number(s):
BNL--93668-2010-JA; KP1602020
Journal Information:
Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, Journal Name: Radiation and Environmental Biophysics Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 49; ISSN 1432-2099; ISSN REBPAT; ISSN 0301-634X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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