Babu, Vipin ORCID: 0000-0002-0001-8783 and Schumacher, Bjoern
(2016).
A C. elegans homolog for the UV-hypersensitivity syndrome disease gene UVSSA.
DNA Repair, 41.
S. 8 - 16.
AMSTERDAM:
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV.
ISSN 1568-7856
Abstract
The transcription-coupled repair pathway (TC-NER) plays a vital role in removing transcription-blocking DNA lesions, particularly UV-induced damage. Clinical symptoms of the two TC-NER-deficiency syndromes, Cockayne syndrome (CS) and UV-hypersensitivity syndrome (UVSS) are dissimilar and the underlying molecular mechanism causing this difference in disease pathology is not yet clearly understood. UV-stimulated scaffold protein A (UVSSA) has been identified recently as a new causal gene for UVSS. Here we describe a functional homolog of the human UVSSA gene in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, uvs-1 (UVSSA-like-1). Mutations in uvs-1 render the animals hypersensitive to UV-B irradiation and transcription-blocking lesion-inducing illudin-M, similar to mutations in TC-NER deficient mutants. Moreover, we demonstrate that TC-NER factors including UVS-1 are required for the survival of the adult animals after UV-treatment. (c) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-276802 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.dnarep.2016.03.008 | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | DNA Repair | ||||||||||||
Volume: | 41 | ||||||||||||
Page Range: | S. 8 - 16 | ||||||||||||
Date: | 2016 | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV | ||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | AMSTERDAM | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 1568-7856 | ||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||
Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/27680 |
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