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Investigation of Protein Recruitment to DNA Lesions Using 405 Nm Laser Micro-irradiation
Published on: March 20, 2018
DNA damage initiates photobiologic reactions in the skin
Takeshi Horio1, Hiroko Miyauchi-Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Okamoto
1Department of Dermatology, Kansai Medical University, Moriguchi, Osaka 570-8507, Japan. horio@takii.kmu.ac.jp
Abstract:
Ultraviolet (UV) radiation can induce acute and chronic photobiologic reactions in the absence of exogenous chromophores. Nuclear DNA is a major chromophore to initiate UV-induced physiologic reactions. The XPA-gene deficient mouse, an animal model of xeroderma pigmentosum, develops increased photobiologic reactions including acute inflammation, immunosuppression and skin cancers, because of the defect in the excision repair of UV-induced DNA lesions.
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