| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,460,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,260,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
To elucidate how mammalian (human) DNA repair proteins recognize base lesions, we performed single-molecule direct visualization of the proteins on DNA. We found that XPC-RAD23B protein complex, which is known to be responsible for damage recognition in mammalian nucleotide excision repair, has high affinity for a lesion and performed one-dimensional bidirectional diffusion on undamaged DNA. The diffusion coefficients of the movement indicate that the protein complex does not always perform rotational tracking of the helical pitch of the DNA while moving along DNA and thus diffuses at much higher rates. The obtained results indicate that the protein complex uses these binding modes for efficient search of DNA lesions scattered throughout the genome from a vast excess of normal bases.
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