Structural basis of TFIIH activation for nucleotide excision repair
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INSTRUMENT(S): Orbitrap Fusion
ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (human)
SUBMITTER: 
Aleksandar Chernev
LAB HEAD: Patrick Cramer
PROVIDER: PXD013947 | Pride | 2019-07-02
REPOSITORIES: Pride
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Structural basis of TFIIH activation for nucleotide excision repair.
Kokic Goran G Chernev Aleksandar A Tegunov Dimitry D Dienemann Christian C Urlaub Henning H Cramer Patrick P
Nature communications 20190628 1
Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is the major DNA repair pathway that removes UV-induced and bulky DNA lesions. There is currently no structure of NER intermediates, which form around the large multisubunit transcription factor IIH (TFIIH). Here we report the cryo-EM structure of an NER intermediate containing TFIIH and the NER factor XPA. Compared to its transcription conformation, the TFIIH structure is rearranged such that its ATPase subunits XPB and XPD bind double- and single-stranded DNA, ...[more]
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