Research Project
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is most versatile DNA repair process: it prevents cells from genomic instability as it removes various DNA damages arose in the genome. DNA repair assays that can directly measure NER activities are useful for clinical diagnoses and clinical researches including anticancer drug discovery. Unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS) and recovery of RNA synthesis (RRS) are two commonly used DNA repair endpoints for assessing the activity of NER. We developed a comprehensive procedure for measuring UDS, RRS and cell-sensitivity by the incorporation of ethynyl-nucleoside analogs (EdU and EU) followed by the click-chemistry reaction.The developed system is suitable for a virus-based UDS / RRS / cell-sensitivity complementation tests, by which we can systematically determine the pathogenic gene of a patient with defect in the DNA repair pathways. A typical clinical diagnosis, using human primary fibroblast cells, takes less than 1 week.
All 2015 2014 2013 2012 Other
All Journal Article (7 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 7 results, Open Access: 1 results, Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (26 results) (of which Invited: 9 results) Remarks (3 results)
Nature Protocols
Volume: 10 Issue: 1 Pages: 12-24
10.1038/nprot.2014.194
Journal of Clinical Investigation
Volume: 124 Issue: 7 Pages: 3137-3146
10.1172/jci74593
The Journal of Clinical Investigation
Volume: 123 Issue: 7 Pages: 2969-2980
10.1172/jci67349
The American Journal of Human Genetics
Volume: 92 Issue: 5 Pages: 807-819
10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.04.007
Int. J. Cancer
Volume: 132 Issue: 3 Pages: 738-743
10.1002/ijc.27709
PLoS Genetics
Volume: 8 Issue: 11 Pages: e1002945-e1002945
10.1371/journal.pgen.1002945
120006985789
Nat Genet
Volume: 44(5) Issue: 5 Pages: 586-92
10.1038/ng.2229
120006985586
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