title: Navigating the nucleotide excision repair threshold.
abstract: Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is the primary DNA repair pathway that removes helix-distorting DNA strand damage induced by ultraviolet light irradiation or chemical carcinogens to ensure genome integrity. While the core NER proteins that carry out damage recognition, excision, and repair reactions have been identified and extensively characterized, and the NER pathway has been reconstituted in vitro, the regulatory pathways that govern the threshold levels of NER have not been fully elucidated. This mini-review focuses on recently discovered transcriptional and post-translational mechanisms that specify the capacity of NER, and suggests the potential implications of modulating NER activity in cancer prevention and therapeutic intervention.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, New York 10065, USA.
authors.forename: Liren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Pengbo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001683:Biological Clocks / Q000235:genetics; D002940:Circadian Rhythm / Q000235:genetics; D004249:DNA Damage; D004260:DNA Repair; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006801:Humans; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D051760:Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group A Protein / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D051760:Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group A Protein
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