Publications

C. Selected Peer-reviewed Publications (Selected from 30 peer-reviewed publications)

1          Bessho T, 1999. Nucleotide excision repair 3' endonuclease XPG stimulates the activity of base excision repairenzyme             thymine glycol DNA glycosylase. Nucleic Acids Res 27: 979-83.
2.         Bessho T, Sancar A, 2000. Human DNA damage checkpoint protein hRAD9 is a 3' to 5' exonuclease. J Biol Chem
            275: 7451-4.
3.         Mu D, Bessho T, Nechev LV, Chen DJ, Harris TM, Hearst JE, Sancar A, 2000. DNA interstrand cross- links induce futile             repair synthesis in mammalian cell extracts. Mol Cell Biol 20: 2446-54. (Mu and Bessho contributed equally)
4.         Bessho T, 2003. Induction of DNA replication-mediated double strand breaks by psoralen DNA interstrand cross-links. J Biol             Chem 278: 5250-4.
5.         Motycka TA, Bessho T, Post SM, Sung P, Tomkinson AE, 2004. Physical and functional interaction between the             XPF/ERCC1 endonuclease and hRad52. J Biol Chem 279: 13634-9.
6.         Cipak L, Watanabe N, Bessho T, 2006. The role of BRCA2 in replication-coupled DNA interstrandcross-link repair in vitro. Nat             Struct Mol Biol 13: 729-33.
7          Fisher LA, Bessho M, Bessho T, 2008. Processing of a psoralen DNA interstrand cross-link by XPF- ERCC1 complex in vitro.             J Biol Chem 283: 1275-81.
8.         Zietlow L, Bessho T, 2008. DNA polymerase I-mediated translesion synthesis in RecA-independentDNA             interstrand cross-link repair in E. coli. Biochemistry 47: 5460-4.
9.         Razidlo GL, Johnson HJ, Stoeger SM, Cowan KH, Bessho T, Lewis RE, 2009. KSR1 is required for cell cycle reinitiation             following DNA damage. J Biol Chem 284: 6705-15.
10.       Zietlow L, Smith LA, Bessho M, Bessho T, 2009. Evidence for the involvement of human DNA polymerase N in the repair of             DNA interstrand cross-links. Biochemistry 48: 11817-24.
11.       Makarova AV, Grabow C, Gening LV, Tarantul VZ, Tahirov TH, Bessho T, Pavlov YI, 2011. Inaccurate DNA synthesis in cell             extracts of yeast producing active human DNA polymerase iota. PLoS One 6: e16612.

12.       Fisher LA, Bessho M, Wakasugi M, Matsunaga T, Bessho T, 2011. Role of interaction of XPF with RPA in nucleotide excision             repair. J Mol Biol 413: 337-46.
13.       Fisher LA, Samson L, Bessho T, 2011. Removal of Reactive Oxygen Species-Induced 3'-BlockedEnds by XPF-ERCC1. Chem             Res Toxicol 24: 1876-81.

14.       Pessetto, Z.Y., Yan, Y., Bessho, T. and Natarajan, A. 2012. Inhibition of BRCT(BRCA1)- phosphoprotein interaction             enhances the cytotoxic effect of olaparib in breast cancer cells: a proof of concept study for synthetic lethal therapeutic             option. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 134:511-517
15.       Smith, L. A., Makarova, A. V., Samson, L., Thiesen, K. E., Dhar, A., and Bessho, T. 2012. Bypass of a Psoralen DNA             Interstrand Cross-Link by DNA Polymerases beta, iota, and kappa in Vitro, Biochemistry. 51: 8931–8938
16.       Okamoto, S., Narita, H., Sasanuma, H., Takeda, S., Matsunaga, S., *Bessho, T., and *Tano, K. 2014. Impact of DNA repair             pathways on the cytotoxicity of piperlongumine in chicken DT40 cell-lines. Genes and Cancer 5: 285-292 (*Corresponding             authors)