DNA repair, mutagenesis, and other responses to DNA damage : a subject collection from Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology / edited by Errol C. Friedberg, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Stephen J. Elledge, Harvard Medical School, Alan R. Lehmann, University of Sussex, Tomas Lindahl, London Research Institute, Marco Muzi-Falconi, Universita degli Studi di Milano.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

DNA base damage by reactive oxygen species, oxidizing agents, abd UV radiatio / Jean Cadet and J. Richard Wagner -- Ancient DNA damage / Jesse Dabney, Matthias Meyer, and Savante Paabo -- DNA repair by reversal of DNA damage / Chengqi Yi and Chuan He -- Base excision repair / Hans E. Krokan and Magnar Bjoras -- Prokaryotic nucleotide excision repair / Caroline Kisker, Jochen Kuper, and Bennett Van Houten -- Nucleotide excision repair in eukaryotes / Orlando D. Scharer --Mammalian transcription-coupled excision repair / Wim Vermeulen and Maria Fousteri -- Alternative excision repair pathways / Akira Yasui -- Postreplicative mismactch repair / Josef Jiricny -- The maintenance of mitochondrial DNA integrity : critical analysis and update / Mikhail Alexeyev, Inna Shokolenko, Glenn Wilson, and Susan LeDoux -- Nucleosome dynamics as modular systems that integrate DNA damage and repair / Craig L. Peterson and Genevieve Almouzni.

DNA damage response : three levels of DNA repair regulation / Bianca M. Sirbu and David Cortez -- DNA damage reponses in prokaryotes : regulating genen expression, modulating growth patterns, and manipulating replication forks / Kenneth N. Kreuzer -- DNA damage sensing by the ATM and ATR kinase / Alexandre Marechal and Lee Zou -- Repair of strand breaks by homologous recombination / Maria Jasin and Rodney Rothstein -- Repair of double-strand breaks by end joining / Kishore K. Chiruvella, Zhuobin Liang, and Thomas E. Wilson -- DNA repair at telomeres : keeping the ends intact / Christopher J. Webb, Yun Wu, and Virginia A. Zakian -- Translesion DNA synthesis and mutagenensis in prokaryotes / Robert P. Fuchs and Shingo Fujii -- Replicating damaged DNA in eukaryotes / Nimrat Chatterjee and Wolfram Siede -- Translesion DNA synthesis and mutagenesis in eukaryotes / Julian E. Sale -- Adventures in understanding the complex mechanism of DNA interstrand cross-link repair / Cheryl Clauson, Orlando D. Scharer, and Laura Niedernhofer -- Biology of extreme radiation resistance : the way of Deinococcus radiodurans / Anita Krisko and Miroslav Radman -- Diseases associated with defective responses to DNA damage / Mark O'Driscoll.