Cancer, cadmium and genome integrity (original) (raw)

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The direct inhibition of DNA mismatch repair by cadmium provides a molecular mechanism for cadmium toxicity with profound implications for human health, risk assessment and biological understanding of environmental mutagens. Alteration of key DNA damage response pathways may prove even more important than direct DNA damage by mutagens.

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Figure 2: Cadmium poisoning of MMR enzymes and resulting mutations.

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  1. Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, 55905, Minnesota, USA
    Cynthia T McMurray
  2. Department of Molecular Biology and Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, 92037, California, USA
    John A Tainer
  3. Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, 94720, California, USA
    John A Tainer

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McMurray, C., Tainer, J. Cancer, cadmium and genome integrity.Nat Genet 34, 239–241 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0703-239

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