Modeling the study of DNA damage responses in mice

TY - CHAP

T1 - Modeling the study of DNA damage responses in mice

AU - Specks, Julia

AU - Nieto-Soler, Maria

AU - Lopez-Contreras, Andres J

AU - Fernandez-Capetillo, Oscar

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - Damaged DNA has a profound impact on mammalian health and overall survival. In addition to being the source of mutations that initiate cancer, the accumulation of toxic amounts of DNA damage can cause severe developmental diseases and accelerate aging. Therefore, understanding how cells respond to DNA damage has become one of the most intense areas of biomedical research in the recent years. However, whereas most mechanistic studies derive from in vitro or in cellulo work, the impact of a given mutation on a living organism is largely unpredictable. For instance, why BRCA1 mutations preferentially lead to breast cancer whereas mutations compromising mismatch repair drive colon cancer is still not understood. In this context, evaluating the specific physiological impact of mutations that compromise genome integrity has become crucial for a better dimensioning of our knowledge. We here describe the various technologies that can be used for modeling mutations in mice and provide a review of the genes and pathways that have been modeled so far in the context of DNA damage responses.

AB - Damaged DNA has a profound impact on mammalian health and overall survival. In addition to being the source of mutations that initiate cancer, the accumulation of toxic amounts of DNA damage can cause severe developmental diseases and accelerate aging. Therefore, understanding how cells respond to DNA damage has become one of the most intense areas of biomedical research in the recent years. However, whereas most mechanistic studies derive from in vitro or in cellulo work, the impact of a given mutation on a living organism is largely unpredictable. For instance, why BRCA1 mutations preferentially lead to breast cancer whereas mutations compromising mismatch repair drive colon cancer is still not understood. In this context, evaluating the specific physiological impact of mutations that compromise genome integrity has become crucial for a better dimensioning of our knowledge. We here describe the various technologies that can be used for modeling mutations in mice and provide a review of the genes and pathways that have been modeled so far in the context of DNA damage responses.

U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4939-2297-0_21

DO - 10.1007/978-1-4939-2297-0_21

M3 - Book chapter

C2 - 25636482

SN - 978-1-4939-2296-3

VL - 1267

T3 - Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)

SP - 413

EP - 437

BT - »Mouse Models of Cancer

A2 - Eferl, Robert

A2 - Casanova, Emilio

PB - Springer Science+Business Media

CY - New York

ER -