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Inhibitory Activities ofHelichrysum. Taxa on Mammalian Type I DNA Topoisomerase [PDF]

Pharmaceutical Biology, 2006
AbstractDNA topoisomerases are essential enzymes that regulate the conformational changes in DNA topology by catalyzing the concerted breakage and rejoining of DNA strands during normal cellular growth. During the past few years, there has been considerable pharmacological interest in these enzymes because the inhibitors of DNA topoisomerases represent
Kucukoglu, O., Kamataki, T., Ozturk, B., Topcu, Z.   +3 more
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Overexpression of Type I Topoisomerases Sensitizes Yeast Cells to DNA Damage [PDF]

Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2001
DNA topoisomerases play essential roles in many DNA metabolic processes. It has been suggested that topoisomerases play an essential role in DNA repair. Topoisomerases can introduce DNA damage upon exposure to drugs that stabilize the covalent protein-DNA intermediate of the topoisomerase reaction. Lesions in DNA are also able to trap topoisomerase-DNA
J L, Nitiss, K C, Nitiss, A, Rose, J L, Waltman   +3 more
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DNA topoisomerase inhibitors: biflavonoids from Ouratea species

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 2002
Topoisomerase inhibitors are agents with anticancer activity. 7"-O-Methyl-agathisflavone (I) and amentoflavone (II) are biflavonoids and were isolated from the Brazilian plants Ouratea hexasperma and O. semiserrata, respectively.
N.F. Grynberg, M.G. Carvalho, J.R. Velandia, M.C. Oliveira, I.C. Moreira, R. Braz- Filho, A. Echevarria   +6 more
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Topoisomerase 3alpha and RMI1 suppress somatic crossovers and are essential for resolution of meiotic recombination intermediates in Arabidopsis thaliana. [PDF]

PLoS Genetics, 2008
Topoisomerases are enzymes with crucial functions in DNA metabolism. They are ubiquitously present in prokaryotes and eukaryotes and modify the steady-state level of DNA supercoiling.
Frank Hartung, Stefanie Suer, Alexander Knoll, Rebecca Wurz-Wildersinn, Holger Puchta   +4 more
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Machines on Genes: Enzymes that Make, Break and Move DNA and RNA [PDF]

, 2010
As the vital information repositories of the cell, the nucleic acids DNA and RNA pose many challenges as enzyme substrates. To produce, maintain and repair DNA and RNA, and to extract the genetic information that they encode, a battery of remarkable ...
Bates, Belousoff, Ben F. Luisi, Lilley, Marshall, Olorunniji, Rice, Richard P. Bowater, Sherratt, Smith, Szczelkun, Tomlinson, W. Marshall Stark, Weinzierl   +13 more
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TDP2 promotes repair of topoisomerase I-mediated DNA damage in the absence of TDP1 [PDF]

, 2012
The abortive activity of topoisomerases can result in clastogenic and/or lethal DNA damage in which the topoisomerase is covalently linked to the 3'- or 5'-terminus of a DNA strand break. This type of DNA damage is implicated in chromosome translocations
Abhishek Sharma, Barthelmes, Danny Huylebroeck, Davies, Davies, El-Khamisy, El-Khamisy, El-Khamisy, El-Khamisy, Esguerra, Giovanella, Hirano, Hudson, Interthal, Interthal, Junko Murai, Katyal, Keith W. Caldecott, Ledesma, Liesbeth Vermeire, Lieve Umans, Limei Ju, Murai, Nitiss, Pommier, Pommier, Pype, Sherif F. El-Khamisy, Shunichi Takeda, Takashima, Varady, Vilotti, Yang, Yves Pommier, Zeng, Zhihong Zeng, Zhou   +36 more
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Mechanism and Specificity of DNA Strand Exchange Catalyzed by Vaccinia DNA Topoisomerase Type I [PDF]

Biochemistry, 2010
The type I DNA topoisomerase from vaccinia virus (vTopo) forms a reversible covalent 3'-phosphotyrosyl linkage with a single strand of duplex DNA at the preferred sequence 5'-(C/T)CCTTp downward arrowN(-1)N(-2)N(-3)-3'. The enzyme-DNA covalent adduct is recombinogenic in cells, because the nicked strand downstream of the cleavage site can dissociate ...
Mary R, Stahley, James T, Stivers
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Mutational Diversity in the Quinolone Resistance-Determining Regions of Type-II Topoisomerases of Salmonella Serovars

Antibiotics, 2021
Quinolone resistance in bacterial pathogens has primarily been associated with mutations in the quinolone resistance-determining regions (QRDRs) of bacterial type-II topoisomerases, which are DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV. Depending on the position and
Aqsa Shaheen, Anam Tariq, Mazhar Iqbal, Osman Mirza, Abdul Haque, Thomas Walz, Moazur Rahman   +6 more
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Fork rotation and DNA precatenation are restricted during DNA replication to prevent chromosomal instability [PDF]

, 2015
Faithful genome duplication and inheritance require the complete resolution of all intertwines within the parental DNA duplex. This is achieved by topoisomerase action ahead of the replication fork or by fork rotation and subsequent resolution of the DNA
Anna L. Chambers, Hiasa, Jessica A. Downs, Jonathan Baxter, Sahar Mansoubi, Stephanie A. Schalbetter   +5 more
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Distinct requirements for the Rad32(Mre¹¹) nuclease and Ctp1(CtIP) in the removal of covalently bound topoisomerase I and II from DNA [PDF]

, 2009
For a cancer cell to resist treatment with drugs that trap topoisomerases covalently on the DNA, the topoisomerase must be removed. In this study, we provide evidence that the Schizosaccharomyces pombe Rad32Mre11 nuclease activity is involved in the ...
Akamatsu, Antony M. Carr, Baldwin, Champoux, Connelly, Connelly, Edgar Hartsuiker, El-Khamisy, Farah, Gutz, Hartsuiker, Hopfner, Hopfner, Keeney, Keeney, Krogh, Krogh, Lengsfeld, Limbo, Liu, Malik, Matthew J. Neale, McKee, Miyoshi, Moreau, Neale, Nitiss, Osheroff, Porter, Pouliot, Prinz, Sartori, Shaw, Stracker, Subramanian, Takashima, Tomita, Utsugi, Young   +38 more
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