DNA Mutations and Repair Chapter 17
Chernobyl, April 26th, 1986 Equal to medium nuclear bomb
Radiation (Techa River) Hiroshima (Aug. 6th, 1945)
DNA Repair: general characteristics Double stranded DNA Redundancy of pathways
Types of DNA repair Mismatch repair Direct Repair Base-Excision Repair Nucleotide Excision Repair
Mismatch repair Mut H Recognize GATC hemi-methylation Mut S Mut L
A closer look at mismatch repair
DIRECT REVERSAL REPAIR Direct Repair
BASE EXCISION REPAIR
BASE EXCISION REPAIR
Nucleotide Excision Repair
Xeroderma pigmentosum UV light damage Autosomal recessive Error in DNA excision-repair enzymes
Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colon Cancer HNPCC 15% of all colon cancers
Li-Fraumeni P-53 mutation