Biology
DNA Repair: On the Pathways to Fixing DNA Damage and Errors, 380 Pages
- DNA repair is fundamental to all cell types to maintain genomic stability. A collection of cutting-edge reviews, DNA Repair - On the pathways to fixing DNA damage and errors covers major aspects of the DNA repair processes in a large variety of organisms, emphasizing foremost developments, questions to be solved and new directions in this rapidly evolving area of modern biology. Written by researchers at the vanguard of the DNA repair field, the chapters highlight the importance of the DNA repair mechanisms and their linkage to DNA replication, cell-cycle progression and DNA recombination. Major topics include: base excision repair, nucleotide excision repair, mismatch repair, double-strand break repair, with focus on specific inhibitors and key players of DNA repair such as nucleases, ubiquitin-proteasome enzymes, poly ADP-ribose polymerase and factors relevant for DNA repair in mitochondria and embryonic stem cells. This book is a journey into the cosmos of DNA repair and its frontiers
- DNA repair is a central component of DNA transactions. Every day living cells battle to offset DNA damage and errors that lead to aging and could cause cancer or other genetic diseases. DNA repair is an important mechanism of defense against the potential dangers for the integrity of genes and genomes, damage to which derives from environmental genotoxic stress, like chemicals, tobacco smoke and radiation or simply from endogenous sources. There could be mistakes in DNA synthesis or the threat from reactive oxygen species that are produced by normal cellular metabolism. The genetic information is thus always at risk to change and mutate, due to the occurrence of continuous errors and distortions. DNA can be damaged in many different ways. Defects could arise because a wrong nucleotide is introduced, or because nucleotides are modified, or because the DNA has been broken or degraded. How are defects in DNA identified, how do cells recognize the different types of damage, how is the wrong information discarded and how does repair occur? I have been in the field of DNA repair since the beginning of my postdoctoral research work and I have had the opportunity to see how much this field has grown in the last decade. Although we certainly have gained important understanding on the numerous mechanisms of DNA repair, still a lot is unknown. The area is vast, there is much more to discover. We can imagine the DNA repair system to be like a particular cosmos. What is its limit, what its potential? How is DNA repair coordinated? Is it perfect or are there flaws, can it be manipulated? When asked to edit a book on DNA repair, I thought this could be an exciting chance to further navigate into the ‘DNA repair cosmos’. This book was not intended to provide the whole picture (besides impossible task) of DNA repair. Rather, this book was conceived to be like a voyager vessel and its goals are: I) To cover aspects of DNA repair processes that target nucleotide, base or sugar modifications in DNA, starting with basic principles of DNA replication, recombination and the cell cycle to the multiplicity of DNA repair mechanisms and their biological importance, emphasizing recent major advances and future directions in this rapidly expanding field.
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Nguồn
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: Internet |
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Tác giả
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: Francesca Storici |
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Kiểu tập tin
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: PDF |
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Độ lớn tập tin
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: 16MB |
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Đăng bởi
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: Blue Dragon |
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Cập nhật
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: 22.10.2011 |
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Số lượt xem
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: 408 |
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Số lượt tải
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: 5 |
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