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Ion-beam radiation damage to DNA by investigation of free radical formation and base damage

March 1, 2020
Author(s)
Melis Kant, Pawel Jaruga, Erdem Coskun, Samuel Ward, Alexander Stark, David Becker, Amitav Adhikary, Michael Sevilla, Miral M. Dizdar
This work investigated the physicochemical processes and DNA base products involved in Ne-22 ion- beam (ca. 1.4 GeV) radiation damage to hydrated (12 waters/nucleotide) highly polymerized salmon sperm DNA. For this purpose, approximately 12 small (ca. 10

Measurement of PARP1 in human tissues by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry

March 1, 2020
Author(s)
Erdem Coskun, Gamze Tuna, Pawel Jaruga, Alessandro Tona, Onur Erdem, Miral M. Dizdar
Poly(ADP ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP1) is a multifunctional DNA repair protein of the base excision repair pathway and plays a major role in the repair of DNA strand breaks and in replication and transcriptional regulation among other functions. Mounting

Implications of DNA Damage and DNA Repair on Human Diseases

January 10, 2020
Author(s)
Bryant C. Nelson, M Miral Dizdar
Cellular DNA damage is implicated in the etiology and progression of many different types of human disorders and diseases. Much of the current research in the DNA damage field is devoted towards understanding the mechanisms and biological implications of

Recognition of DNA adducts by edited and unedited forms of DNA glycosylase NEIL1

November 2, 2019
Author(s)
Irina G. Minko, Vladimir Vartanian, Naoto Tozaki, Erdem Coskun, Sanem Hosbas Coskun, Pawel Jaruga, J Yeo, M.P. Stone, M Egli, Miral M. Dizdar, Amanda K. McCullough, R S. Lloyd
Pre-mRNA encoding human NEIL1 undergoes editing by adenosine deaminase ADAR1 that converts a single adenosine to inosine, and this conversion results in an amino acid change of lysine 242 to arginine. Previous investigations of the catalytic efficiencies

Measurement of Oxidatively Induced DNA Damage in Caenorhabditis elegans with High-Salt DNA Extraction and Isotope-Dilution Mass Spectrometry

August 27, 2019
Author(s)
Leona D. Scanlan, Pawel Jaruga, Sanem Hosbas Coskun, Christopher Sims, Shannon Hanna, Jamie L. Almeida, David N. Catoe, Bryant C. Nelson, Miral M. Dizdar, Erdem Coskun
Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) is used as a medical and systems toxicity model organism for environmental and developmental assays that include high-throughput methods and genetic studies. However, little is known about background levels of

Characterization of Rare NEIL1 Variants Found in East Asian Populations

May 3, 2019
Author(s)
Irina G. Minko, Vladimir Vartanian, Naoto Tozaki, Oskar Linde, Pawel Jaruga, Sanem Hosbas Coskun, Erdem Coskun, Chunfeng Qu, Huan He, Taoyang Chen, Qianqian Song, Yuchen Jiao, Michael Stone, Martin Egli, Miral M. Dizdar, Amanda K. McCullough, R S. Lloyd
The combination of chronic dietary exposure to the fungal toxin, aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), and hepatitis B viral (HBV) infection is associated with an increased risk for early onset hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs). An in-depth knowledge of the mechanisms

Identification and quantification of DNA repair protein poly(ADP ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP1) in human tissues and cultured cells by liquid chromatography/isotope-dilution tandem mass spectrometry

March 1, 2019
Author(s)
Erdem Coskun, Gamze Tuna, Pawel Jaruga, Alessandro Tona, Onur Erdem, M Miral Dizdar
Poly(ADP ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP1) is a multifunctional DNA repair protein of the base excision repair pathway and plays a major role in the repair of DNA strand breaks and in replication and transcriptional regulation among other functions. Mounting

Aflatoxin-guanine DNA Adducts and Oxidatively-induced DNA Damage in Aflatoxin-treated Mice in vivo as Measured by Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry with Isotope-dilution

December 11, 2018
Author(s)
Erdem Coskun, Pawel Jaruga, Vladimir Vartanian, Onur Erdem, Patricia Egner, John D. Groopman, R. S. Lloyd, Miral M. Dizdar
Dietary exposure to aflatoxin (AFB1) is a significant reason for the incidence of hepatocellular carcinomas globally. AFB1-exposure leads to the formation of AFB1-N7-guanine (AFB1-N7-Gua) and two diastereomers of 8,9-dihydro-8-(2,6-diamino-4-oxo-3,4

Oxidatively-induced DNA damage and base excision repair in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder

May 1, 2018
Author(s)
Deniz Ceylan, Gamze Tuna, Guldal Kirkali, Zeliha Tunca, Gunes Can, Hidayet E. Arat, Melis Kant, Miral M. Dizdar, Aysegul Ozerdem
Oxidatively-induced DNA damage has previously been associated with bipolar disorder. More recently, impairments in DNA repair mechanisms have also been reported. We aimed to investigate oxidatively-induced DNA lesions and expression of DNA glycosylases

Small molecule inhibitors of DNA glycosylases as potential drugs in cancer therapy

August 31, 2017
Author(s)
M Miral Dizdar, Aaron C. Jacobs, Nathan Donley, Marcus J. Calkins, Ajit Jadhav, Dorjbal Dorjsuren, David Maloney, Anton Simeonov, Pawel Jaruga, Erdem Coskun, Amanda K. McCullough, R. S. Lloyd
Statement of the Problem: Most chemotherapeutic agents kill cancer cells by damaging DNA. Cancer cells overexpress DNA repair proteins and thus increase DNA repair capacity that can cause resistance to therapy by removing DNA lesions before they become