DNA Repair: Vol 7, Issue 5,

This month in DNA Repair

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This Month in DNA Repair Page 683

Letter to the Editor

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Rearrangements in the flanking sequences of the triplet repeat of the FMR1 gene give clues to the mechanisms involved in repeat instability in fragile X Pages 684-685 Tarja Mononen, Harriet von Koskull, Raija-Liisa Airaksinen and Vesa Juvonen

Mini review

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The consequences of Rad51 overexpression for normal and tumor cells Pages 686-693 Hannah L. Klein

Research papers

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Tissue-specific differences in the accumulation of sequence rearrangements with age Pages 694-703 Dominika M. Wiktor-Brown, Werner Olipitz, Carrie A. Hendricks, Rebecca E. Rugo and Bevin P. Engelward

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Differential repair of UVB-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in cultured human skin cells and whole human skin Pages 704-712 Stéphane Mouret, Marie Charveron, Alain Favier, Jean Cadet and Thierry Douki

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Ku70 prevents genome instability resulting from heterozygosity of the telomerase RNA component in a vertebrate tumour line Pages 713-724 Virginie Faure, Thomas Wenner, Carol Cooley, Emer Bourke, Christine J. Farr, Shunichi Takeda and Ciaran G. Morrison

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The Ku-dependent non-homologous end-joining but not other repair pathway is inhibited by high linear energy transfer ionizing radiation Pages 725-733 Hongyan Wang, Xiang Wang, Piyan Zhang and Ya Wang

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Functionally distinct nucleosome-free regions in yeast require Rad7 and Rad16 for nucleotide excision repair Pages 734-743 Teresa Lettieri, Rolf Kraehenbuehl, Christoph Capiaghi, Magdalena Livingstone-Zatchej and Fritz Thoma

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Incidence of DNA repair deficiency disorders in western Europe: Xeroderma pigmentosum, Cockayne syndrome and trichothiodystrophy Pages 744-750 Wim J. Kleijer, Vincent Laugel, Mark Berneburg, Tiziana Nardo, Heather Fawcett, Alexei Gratchev, Nicolaas G.J. Jaspers, Alain Sarasin, Miria Stefanini and Alan R. Lehmann

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Direct involvement of the tumor suppressor p53 in nucleotide excision repair Pages 751-761 Yu-Ching Chang, Kun-Yan Jan, Chun-An Cheng, Chu-Bin Liao and Yin-Chang Liu

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Mutations to Ku reveal differences in human somatic cell lines Pages 762-774 Kazi R. Fattah, Brian L. Ruis and Eric A. Hendrickson

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PTIP/Swift is required for efficient PCNA ubiquitination in response to DNA damage Pages 775-787 Thomas Göhler, Ivan M. Munoz, John Rouse and J. Julian Blow

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RAD59 is required for efficient repair of simultaneous double-strand breaks resulting in translocations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Pages 788-800 Nicholas R. Pannunzio, Glenn M. Manthey and Adam M. Bailis

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Identification of pathways controlling DNA damage induced mutation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Pages 801-810 Ewa T. Lis, Bryan M. O’Neill, Cristina Gil-Lamaignere, Jodie K. Chin and Floyd E. Romesberg

Brief report

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Budding yeast Mms22 and Mms1 regulate homologous recombination induced by replisome blockage Pages 811-818 Eris Duro, Jessica A. Vaisica, Grant W. Brown and John Rouse

Hot topics in DNA Repair

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DNA repair gets physical: Mapping an XPA-binding site on ERCC1 Pages 819-826 Deborah L. Croteau, Ye Peng and Bennett Van Houten

Book review

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P.U. Giacomoni, Editor, Biophysical and Physiological Effects of Solar Radiation on Human Skin, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK (2007) ISBN-10: 08540289X; ISBN-13: 978-0854042890. Pages 827-828 James E. Cleaver

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