{"id":93710,"date":"2019-07-15T21:23:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T04:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/study-gives-insight-into-sun-induced-dna-damage-and-cell-repair"},"modified":"2019-07-15T21:23:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T04:23:11","slug":"study-gives-insight-into-sun-induced-dna-damage-and-cell-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/study-gives-insight-into-sun-induced-dna-damage-and-cell-repair","title":{"rendered":"Study gives insight into sun-induced DNA damage and cell repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-gives-insight-into-sun-induced-dna-damage-and-cell-repair3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team led by a Baylor University researcher has published a breakthrough article that provides a better understanding of the dynamic process by which sunlight-induced DNA damage is recognized by the molecular repair machinery in cells as needing repair.<\/p>\n<p>Ultraviolet light from the sun is a ubiquitous carcinogen that can inflict structural damage to the cellular DNAs DNA carries important blueprints for cellular functions, failure in removing and restoring damaged parts of DNA in a timely fashion can have detrimental outcomes and lead to skin cancers in humans, said lead author Jung-Hyun Min, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry in Baylor\u2019s College of Arts &amp; Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Min and her team showed how the repair <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/protein\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protein<\/a> Rad4\/XPC would bind to one such UV-induced DNA damage\u20146\u20134 photoproduct\u2014to mark the damaged site along the DNA in preparation for the rest of the nucleotide excision repair (NER) process in cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by a Baylor University researcher has published a breakthrough article that provides a better understanding of the dynamic process by which sunlight-induced DNA damage is recognized by the molecular repair machinery in cells as needing repair. Ultraviolet light from the sun is a ubiquitous carcinogen that can inflict structural damage to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}