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  • Title: Poly(ADP-ribose) synthesis is involved in the toxic effects of alkylating agents but does not regulate DNA repair.
    Author: Cleaver JE, Morgan WF.
    Journal: Mutat Res; 1985; 150(1-2):69-76. PubMed ID: 3923344.
    Abstract:
    Poly(ADP-ribose) is a nuclear polymer that is synthesized in response to DNA-strand breaks and covalently modifies numerous nuclear proteins. Inhibition of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase by 3-amino-benzamide in cells exposed to DNA-damaging agents has a variety of cellular effects, including increases in cell killing, frequency of single-strand breaks, repair replication, and sister-chromatid exchange. These increases have been interpreted as an indication that poly(ADP-ribose) polymerization regulates the rate of ligation. Because of slow ligation, continued repair polymerization should therefore generate longer repair patches. Direct measurement of the rate of ligation of intracellular repair patches and of the size of repair patches indicates that they are unchanged when poly(ADP-ribose) polymerization is inhibited. We therefore conclude that poly(ADP-ribose) does not regulate the ligation stage of repair but instead may regulate the activity of intracellular nucleases and other enzymes that can cause additional DNA damage and changes in chromatin structure.
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