DNA damage checkpoint and repair: From the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans
| Autor: | Yuting Feng, Jinrong Feng, Yan Zhang, Shuangyan Yao |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Biophysics Pathogenic fungus Biology G2-M DNA damage checkpoint biology.organism_classification DNA damage response Biochemistry Budding yeast Computer Science Applications Microbiology body regions DNA damage checkpoint Structural Biology Candida albicans Genetics DNA damage repair Pathogenicity TP248.13-248.65 Biotechnology |
| Zdroj: | Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, Vol 19, Iss, Pp 6343-6354 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2001-0370 |
| Popis: | Cells are constantly challenged by internal or external genotoxic assaults, which may induce a high frequency of DNA lesions, leading to genome instability. Accumulation of damaged DNA is severe or even lethal to cells and can result in abnormal proliferation that can cause cancer in multicellular organisms, aging or cell death. Eukaryotic cells have evolved a comprehensive defence system termed the DNA damage response (DDR) to monitor and remove lesions in their DNA. The DDR has been extensively studied in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Emerging evidence indicates that DDR genes in the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans show functional consistency with their orthologs in S. cerevisiae, but may act through distinct mechanisms. In particular, the DDR in C. albicans appears critical for resisting DNA damage stress induced by reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced from immune cells, and this plays a vital role in pathogenicity. Therefore, DDR genes could be considered as potential targets for clinical therapies. This review summarizes the identified DNA damage checkpoint and repair genes in C. albicans based on their orthologs in S. cerevisiae, and discusses their contribution to pathogenicity in C. albicans. |
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