Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is a versatile DNA repair pathway that can remove a wide range of base lesions from the genome. In mammalian global genomic NER, the XPC protein complex initiates the repair reaction by recognizing sites of DNA damage, which depends on detection of disrupted/destabilized base pairs. NER defects cause several autosomal recessive genetic disorders, and are most common when exposure to UV radiation has caused the formation of thymine or cytosine dimers. It usually involves localized DNA problems such as mismatched bases or adducts.
Defects in transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair are associated with several pathologies, including ultraviolet-sensitive syndrome and severe premature ageing conditions such as Cockayne syndrome. Mutations in genes on the NER pathway are associated with diseases such as xeroderma pigmentosum, Cockayne syndrome, and trichothiodystrophy, which involve skin cancer and developmental and neurological symptoms.
NER is a broad substrate specificity and is one of several DNA repair pathways that are universal throughout phylogeny. It is the main pathway used by mammals to remove bulky DNA lesions, such as those formed by UV light, environmental mutagens, and other factors. Excision repair is a form of the enzyme-mediated dark repair process, where the damaged site of DNA is excised and replaced with the correct base using the correct base.
In humans, mutations in the NER pathway can cause diseases such as Xeroderma pigmentosum, which is associated with a 2000-fold increase in the number of base errors. DNA polymerase can make mistakes while adding nucleotides, editing the DNA by proofreading every newly added base.
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| Nucleotide Excision Repair, Genome Stability, and Human … | This work, authored by DJ Garfinkel in 2002, has been cited 38 times. It focuses on some of the less described effects of mutations in the NER/TFIIH apparatus on genome stability, and their potential implications for… | pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov |
| Nucleotide Excision Repair – an overview | Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is a versatile DNA repair system that is capable of removing bulky and helix-distorting lesions from the DNA strands. | www.sciencedirect.com |
| Nucleotide excision repair in humans – PMC | By G. Spivak, 2015. Cited 420 times. These enzymes, which exhibit low fidelity when copying DNA, enhance tolerance to damage and increase survival rates, albeit at the cost of greater… | pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov |
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What are the enzymes for nucleotide excision repair?
Nucleotide excision repair in Escherichia coli is controlled by the UvrABC endonuclease enzyme complex, consisting of four Uvr proteins: UvrA, UvrB, UvrC, and DNA helicase II. The UvrA subunit recognizes distortions in the helix, causing the UvrA subunit to leave and an UvrC protein binds to the UvrB monomer, forming a new UvrBC dimer. UvrB cleaves a phosphodiester bond 4 nucleotides downstream of the DNA damage, while UvrC cleaves a phosphodiester bond 8 nucleotides upstream of the DNA damage, creating 12 nucleotide excised segments. DNA helicase II (sometimes called UvrD) removes the excised segment by actively breaking hydrogen bonds between complementary bases. The resultant gap is filled in using DNA polymerase I and DNA ligase.
TC-NER also exists in bacteria and is mediated by the TRCF protein. TRCF is an SF2 ATPase that uses ATP hydrolysis to translocate on dsDNA upstream of the transcription bubble and forward translocate RNA polymerase, initiating dissociation of the RNA Polymerase ternary elongation complex. TRCF also recruits the Uvr(A)BC nucleotide excision repair machinery by direct physical interaction with the UvrA subunit.
Genetic variation or mutation to nucleotide excision repair genes can impact cancer risk by affecting repair efficacy. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and nonsynonymous coding SNPs (nsSNPs) are present at very low levels in the human population, but if located in NER genes or regulatory sequences, such mutations can negatively affect DNA repair capacity, increasing the likelihood of cancer development.
What does nucleotide excision repair fix?
Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is the primary pathway for removing bulky DNA lesions caused by UV irradiation, environmental mutagens, and certain chemotherapeutic agents. The discovery of NER, its association with genetic disorders, mechanistic features, and relationship with other cellular pathways was reviewed in 2005 in DNA Repair and Mutagenesis. The gap-filling step in NER can be monitored by unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS), which allowed the connection between NER and the genetic disorder xeroderma pigmentusum (XP). UDS is used in the clinical diagnosis of XP patients and has been instrumental in elucidating the NER pathway. XP patients display extreme sensitivity to sunlight and an over 2000-fold increased risk of skin cancer due to their inability to repair lesions induced by solar UV irradiation.
Studies of XP patient cell lines revealed that UDS varied significantly among cell lines. Using cell fusion techniques, it was established that seven complementation groups with NER defects exist, XPA through XPG, each representing a different gene defect. The availability of XP cell lines from patients, UV-sensitive yeast strains, and Chinese hamster ovary cell lines allowed for the cloning of NER genes over the years.
What is nucleotide excision repair and their factors in humans?
Abstract. Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is the main pathway used by mammals to remove bulky DNA lesions such as those formed by UV light, environmental mutagens, and some cancer chemotherapeutic adducts from DNA. Deficiencies in NER are associated with the extremely skin cancer-prone inherited disorder xeroderma pigmentosum. Although the core NER reaction and the factors that execute it have been known for some years, recent studies have led to a much more detailed understanding of the NER mechanism, how NER operates in the context of chromatin, and how it is connected to other cellular processes such as DNA damage signaling and transcription. This review emphasizes biochemical, structural, cell biological, and genetic studies since 2005 that have shed light on many aspects of the NER pathway.
Bulky DNA lesions (e. g., those formed by UV light) are removed by nucleotide excision repair (NER). Recent studies have led to a detailed understanding of the NER mechanism and its regulation in the context of the cell.
Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is the main pathway responsible for the removal of bulky DNA lesions induced by UV irradiation, environmental mutagens, and certain chemotherapeutic agents. The history of the discovery of NER, its association with genetic disorders, mechanistic features, and relationship with other cellular pathways has been extensively reviewed in 2005 in several articles in DNA Repair and Mutagenesis ( Friedberg et al. 2005 ). Here, I will briefly reiterate how the field of NER developed over the past 50 years and then focus on how our knowledge has progressed since 2005.
What enzyme cuts out damaged DNA during excision repair?
Most of the damage to DNA bases is excised by one of two major DNA repair pathways. In base excision repair, the altered base is removed by a DNA glycosylase enzyme, followed by excision of the resulting sugar phosphate. In nucleotide excision repair, a small section of the DNA strand surrounding the damage is removed from the DNA double helix as an oligonucleotide. In both cases, the gap left in the DNA helix is filled in by the sequential action of DNA polymerase and DNA ligase, using the undamaged DNA strand as the template.
Other critical repair systems—based on either nonhomologous or homologous end-joining mechanisms—reseal the accidental double-strand breaks that occur in the DNA helix. In most cells, an elevated level of DNA damage causes both an increased synthesis of repair enzymes and a delay in the cell cycle. Both factors help to ensure that DNA damage is repaired before a cell divides.
Can mutations be repaired by enzymes?
Mutations result either from errors in DNA replication or from the damaging effects of mutagens, such as chemicals and radiation, which react with DNA and change the structures of individual nucleotides. All cells possess DNA-repair enzymes that attempt to minimize the number of mutations that occur (Section 14. 2).
Learning outcomes. When you have read Chapter 14, you should be able to.
Distinguish between the terms ‘mutation’ and ‘recombination’, and define the various terms that are used to identify different types of mutation.
Describe, with specific examples, how mutations are caused by spontaneous errors in replication and by chemical and physical mutagens.
What disease is caused by defective nucleotide excision repair?
Abstract. Mutations in genes on the nucleotide excision repair pathway are associated with diseases, such as xeroderma pigmentosum, Cockayne syndrome and trichothiodystrophy, that involve skin cancer and developmental and neurological symptoms. These mutations cause the defective repair of damaged DNA and increased transcription arrest but, except for skin cancer, the links between repair and disease have not been obvious. Widely different clinical syndromes seem to result from mutations in the same gene, even when the mutations result in complete loss of function. The mapping of mutations in recently solved protein structures has begun to clarify the links between the molecular defects and phenotypes, but the identification of additional sources of clinical variability is still necessary.
(Advance in research on causative genes of xeroderma pigmentosum and related diseases).
Sun Z, Guo Y, Zhang J, Zhuang Y, Li M, Yao Z. Sun Z, et al. Zhonghua Yi Xue Yi Chuan Xue Za Zhi. 2016 Oct;33:708-12. doi: 10. 3760/cma. j. issn. 1003-9406. 2016. 05. 029. Zhonghua Yi Xue Yi Chuan Xue Za Zhi. 2016. PMID: 27577229 Review. Chinese.
What happens during nucleotide excision repair of damaged DNA?
Excision repair is a crucial mechanism for repairing various chemical alterations to DNA, making it the most important DNA repair mechanism in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. In excision repair, damaged DNA is recognized and removed, either as free bases or nucleotides, and the gap is filled by synthesis of a new DNA strand using the undamaged complementary strand as a template. Three types of excision repair are base-excision repair, nucleotide-excision repair, and mismatch repair.
Uracil-containing DNA is an example of base-excision repair, where single damaged bases are recognized and removed from the DNA molecule. Uracil can arise in DNA through two mechanisms: uracil is occasionally incorporated in place of thymine during DNA synthesis, or uracil is formed in DNA by the deamination of cytosine. The excision of uracil in DNA is catalyzed by DNA glycosylase, an enzyme that cleaves the bond linking the base (uracil) to the deoxyribose of the DNA backbone, yielding free uracil and an apyrimidinic site. DNA glycosylases also recognize and remove other abnormal bases, including hypoxanthine formed by the deamination of adenine, pyrimidine dimers, alkylated purines, and bases damaged by oxidation or ionizing radiation.
How do you repair a mutation?
Permanent changes in the DNA sequence, called mutations, can have serious consequences for cells and are repaired through mismatch repair, chemical reversal, excision repair, and double-stranded break repair.
Some errors are not corrected during replication, but are instead corrected immediately after replication is completed; this type of repair is known as mismatch repair. Mismatch repair can also correct small insertions and deletions that happen when the DNA polymerase slips on a template. If a mismatch error occurs, a protein complex recognizes and binds to the mispaired base. A second complex cuts the DNA near the mismatch, and more enzymes chop out the incorrect nucleotide and a surrounding patch of DNA. A DNA polymerase then replaces the missing section with correct nucleotides, and an enzyme called DNA ligase seals the gap.
Damage to DNA can occur at any point, not just during replication. Some sources of damage that can induce mutations in the DNA sequence include UV light, chemicals, and X-rays. These types of damage can be repaired in a few different ways.
What enzymes are used in DNA repair?
2 Determination of DNA repair enzyme activitiesDNA repair enzymeCorresponding enzymeGlycosylasesFpgEndonucleasesEndo IVEcoRIExonucleasesExo I.
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What are DNA repair enzymes?
DNA repair enzymes are powerful proteins which are highly skilled in accelerating chemical reactions, therefore boosting the skin’s natural processes. Within skincare and sun protection, DNA repair enzymes are a vital component in improving skin health and reducing the risks of DNA damage.
But how do DNA repair enzymes work? Let’s take a closer look at skin cell DNA, how it is damaged, and how it can be repaired.
What is DNA?. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a long, double-stranded molecule that looks like a twisted ladder. It is considered the ‘molecule of life’ because the world as we know it simply couldn’t exist without it.
Which enzyme directly repairs damaged DNA?
DNA repair is a complex process that involves various mechanisms, including NER and photoreactivation. Base excision repair (BER) is the primary mechanism for handling spontaneous DNA damage caused by free radicals and other reactive species. Bases can become oxidized, alkylated, or hydrolyzed, resulting in abnormal bases that need to be removed and replaced. DNA glycosylases remove damaged bases by cutting them out of the DNA strand through cleavage of covalent bonds between bases and the sugar-phosphate backbone. The gap is filled by a specialized repair polymerase and sealed by ligase.
Double-strand breaks, caused by ionizing radiation, are highly deleterious and can lead to chromosomal rearrangements, disrupting genes and potentially leading to cancers. Double-strand breaks are repaired through nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) or homologous recombination repair (HRR). NHEJ uses DNA ligase IV to join and fill in the ends, while HRR uses the homologous chromosome as a template for repair.
DNA mutations are a part of life, and a rigorous system of checks and balances is in place through DNA repair machinery. Errors that slip through the cracks may sometimes be associated with disease, but they also contribute to variation that is acted upon by longer-term processes like evolution and natural selection.
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Thank you professor…another fabulous article. I like how you go deep down into the molecular structures of the mutant amino acids and the pyrimidine dimers (and other such things) instead of just glossing over them. Getting to the chemistry at the heart of what we observe makes the learning experience so much more intuitive!
hey professor dave. great article! your graphics really illustrate concepts that I’ve been struggling to grasp since high school. this is honestly the best explanation of mutations I’ve ever seen. I do have one thing I wanna clarify tho. so in the frame shift mutations, it was one whole base pair that you had deleted. let’s say you showed an insertion. would it be an insertion of a whole base pair? or could you have an insertion of a nucleotide on one strand but not on the other strand opposite to that added nucleotide? let me know if my question is confusing lol I’d be happy to rephrase it as best as I can
Hi Professor Dave! I’m an atheist from Brazil and I wonder how could such a complex mechanism exists without an inteligent mind to project this. I know the answer is very complex. Do you have any content about the origins of this part of biochemistry? It’s well related to the origins of life, right? I just love your articles, thanks a lot for them!
It´s very calming that he talks like for baby to me, after being on lectures where you have 20 seconds time for one dia while professor is speaking,,, to read and understand one dia takes 2 minutes and to listen and understand professor takes another 2 minutes which end up you learning nothing and just skip the lectures and try to find what the hell are we supposed to learn and then find how to learn it.
One big cause of gene damage is minerals and vitamin deficiencies. Too bad he left that one out. Weston Price did work in showing vitamin A deficiencies cause lack of eye development in pigs and puppies, there are pictures of this in his free online book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. He also showed where soil mineral deficiencies caused double faced calves and partial absorption of a twin which showed as calves with extra limbs. He even showed where calcium and Magnesium deficient soils caused proud upright horns of an ox to gradually fall when he was moved to an area of poor soil. These are things that are preventable, by supplementation, and soil supplementation. So it’s sad that more isn’t done in this area as it’s an easy and usually cheap fix. Dolomite has calcium and magnesium, much needed by the soil for good crop production (ideal soil needs 68% calcium and 12-20% magnesium) and limestone has calcium and 60 trace minerals (found in the soils of the centenarian cultures) (soilminerals dot com). A”simple” magnesium deficiency can cause multiple illnesses and maladies including death. William Albrecht was the father of soil minerals. He discovered this and helped this farm resolve their high mortality rate. Also missing was a discussion of fetal alcohol and tylenol, and smoking and any number of drugs taken in pregnancy. There is enormous chance of damage in pregnancy when ingesting these things. So easy to prevent.
Deletion or insertion reminds me of a situation of a program I’m thinking of codons as instructions here when an opcode is read as an operand and vice versa In computers this gets fixed quickly since instructions aren’t stored in a constant amount of bytes, could be one with “NOP” (0x00), could be 2 or even three. but genetic code is stored in a constant amount of nucleotides: 3, so this never gets fixed. Nonsense mutations gotten from that i like to think as 0xFF in the operand being read as the halt instruction
Now that I can better understand this stuff I can see how evolution happens, but at the same time it’s jerking tear from my eye because evolution found a way to make itself some repair mechanisms and this continues to blow my mind. As an atheist, I gotta say, it makes me feel like I’m missing something so big, so important that I even consider something as ridiculous as god. Anyway after seeing this it’s hard to believe that we could ever find some tool that would help us target one specific point mutation at a time. EDIT: CRISPR can’t do that, right?