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Specific mutations in the XPD subunit of transcription factor IIH result in combined xeroderma pigmentosum (XP)/Cockayne syndrome (CS), a severe DNA repair disorder characterized at the cellular level by a transcriptional arrest following UV irradiation. This transcriptional arrest has always been thought to be the result of faulty transcription-coupled repair. In the present study, we investigate the transcriptional dysregulation that follows UV irradiation in XP-D/CS compared with “pure” XP-D cells or WT cells. We also study how this process is affected by the inhibition of the histone deacetylase Sirt1.

Publication Title

Sirt1 suppresses RNA synthesis after UV irradiation in combined xeroderma pigmentosum group D/Cockayne syndrome (XP-D/CS) cells.

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