title: Altering the chromatin landscape for nucleotide excision repair.
abstract: DNA acts as a 'workbench' for various nuclear processes that occur inside living cells. In eukaryotic cells, DNA is highly compacted in a structural hierarchy with histones and other proteins into chromatin. This compaction affects DNA structure and coordinates the accessibility to site-specific nuclear factors during DNA processing events. DNA repair is no exception to this general rule and several reviews have appeared recently that discuss this topic in detail [1-3]. Here, we focus on recent findings correlating changes in DNA repair with subtle variations in the chromatin landscape.
authors.affiliation: Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4660, United States.
authors.forename: Ronita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nag
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Smerdon
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D002843:Chromatin / Q000378:metabolism; D042002:Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly; D004249:DNA Damage; D004260:DNA Repair; D006657:Histones / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008957:Models, Genetic; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009154:Mutation
chemical_list: D002843:Chromatin; D006657:Histones; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate