Related Experiment Video
Updated: Oct 9, 2026

Investigation of Protein Recruitment to DNA Lesions Using 405 Nm Laser Micro-irradiation
Published on: March 20, 2018
XPA lactylation is required for UV-induced DNA damage repair
Jie Yang1,2, Xin Ding3,4, Zhikai Zeng1,2
1Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases; Jiangxi Institute of Respiratory Diseases; Jiangxi Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases; Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China.
Abstract:
Xeroderma pigmentosum group A (XPA) serves as a core nucleotide excision repair (NER) factor essential for the repair process triggered by UV irradiation. Lactylation, a newly identified post-translational modification, plays a key role in tumorigenesis and cancer progression. Herein, we discovered that XPA was lactylated in the DNA-binding domain by the acyl-transferase KAT5. In addition, UV irradiation promoted XPA lactylation, thereby increasing the chromatin recruitment of XPA and NER. However, the mutation of XPA to a lactylation-deficient form impeded XPA chromatin recruitment under UV irradiation, impaired NER, and rendered cancer cells hypersensitive to UV irradiation. Our data demonstrate that the lactylation of XPA plays a crucial role in NER and reveals the link between metabolic reprogramming and DNA damage repair induced by UV irradiation.
Related Concept Videos
Nucleotide Excision Repair
Nucleotide Excision Repair
Cells are regularly exposed to mutagens—factors in the environment that can damage DNA and generate mutations. UV radiation is one of the most common mutagens and is estimated to introduce a significant number of changes in DNA. These include bends or kinks in the structure, which can block DNA replication or transcription. If these errors are not fixed, the damage can cause mutations, which in turn can result in cancer or disease depending on which sequences are...
Nucleotide Excision Repair
Long-patch Base Excision Repair
Translesion DNA Polymerases
TLS polymerases are found in all three domains of life - archaea, bacteria, and eukaryotes. Of the different classes of TLS polymerases, members of the Y family are fitted with specialized structures that...
Mutations
Chromosomal Alterations Are Large-Scale Mutations
While point mutations are changes in a single nucleotide in...

