TY - JOUR
T1 - DNA mismatch repair in trinucleotide repeat instability
AU - Guo, Jinzhen
AU - Chen, Luping
AU - Li, Guo Min
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (CA167181, CA192003, GM112702), the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) and the Reece A. Overcash, Jr. Endowment for Research on Colon Cancer to Guo-Min Li.
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© 2017, Science China Press and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2017/10/1
Y1 - 2017/10/1
N2 - Trinucleotide repeat expansions cause over 30 severe neuromuscular and neurodegenerative disorders, including Huntington’s disease, myotonic dystrophy type 1, and fragile X syndrome. Although previous studies have substantially advanced the understanding of the disease biology, many key features remain unknown. DNA mismatch repair (MMR) plays a critical role in genome maintenance by removing DNA mismatches generated during DNA replication. However, MMR components, particularly mismatch recognition protein MutSβ and its interacting factors MutLα and MutLγ, have been implicated in trinucleotide repeat instability. In this review, we will discuss the roles of these key MMR proteins in promoting trinucleotide repeat instability.
AB - Trinucleotide repeat expansions cause over 30 severe neuromuscular and neurodegenerative disorders, including Huntington’s disease, myotonic dystrophy type 1, and fragile X syndrome. Although previous studies have substantially advanced the understanding of the disease biology, many key features remain unknown. DNA mismatch repair (MMR) plays a critical role in genome maintenance by removing DNA mismatches generated during DNA replication. However, MMR components, particularly mismatch recognition protein MutSβ and its interacting factors MutLα and MutLγ, have been implicated in trinucleotide repeat instability. In this review, we will discuss the roles of these key MMR proteins in promoting trinucleotide repeat instability.
KW - DNA mismatch repair
KW - MutSβ
KW - neurodegenerative diseases
KW - trinucleotide repeat instability
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U2 - 10.1007/s11427-017-9186-7
DO - 10.1007/s11427-017-9186-7
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29075942
AN - SCOPUS:85032362256
SN - 1674-7305
VL - 60
SP - 1087
EP - 1092
JO - Science China. Life sciences
JF - Science China. Life sciences
IS - 10
ER -