SCOTT DAVID MCCULLOCH

Summary

Affiliation: North Carolina State University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi The fidelity of DNA synthesis by eukaryotic replicative and translesion synthesis polymerases
    Scott D McCulloch
    Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 7633, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
    Cell Res 18:148-61. 2008
  2. ncbi Effects of accessory proteins on the bypass of a cis-syn thymine-thymine dimer by Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA polymerase eta
    Scott D McCulloch
    Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
    Biochemistry 46:8888-96. 2007
  3. ncbi Multiple solutions to inefficient lesion bypass by T7 DNA polymerase
    Scott D McCulloch
    Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, United States
    DNA Repair (Amst) 5:1373-83. 2006
  4. ncbi Measuring the fidelity of translesion DNA synthesis
    Scott D McCulloch
    Laboratory for Molecular Genetics, NIEHS-NIH, North Carolina, USA
    Methods Enzymol 408:341-55. 2006
  5. ncbi Enzymatic switching for efficient and accurate translesion DNA replication
    Scott D McCulloch
    Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 32:4665-75. 2004
  6. ncbi Efficiency, fidelity and enzymatic switching during translesion DNA synthesis
    Scott D McCulloch
    Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
    Cell Cycle 3:580-3. 2004
  7. ncbi Preferential cis-syn thymine dimer bypass by DNA polymerase eta occurs with biased fidelity
    Scott D McCulloch
    Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
    Nature 428:97-100. 2004
  8. ncbi The efficiency and specificity of apurinic/apyrimidinic site bypass by human DNA polymerase eta and Sulfolobus solfataricus Dpo4
    Robert J Kokoska
    Laboratories of Molecular Genetics and Structural Biology, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
    J Biol Chem 278:50537-45. 2003
  9. ncbi Nick-dependent and -independent processing of large DNA loops in human cells
    Scott D McCulloch
    Graduate Center for Toxicology, Lucille P. Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, USA
    J Biol Chem 278:50803-9. 2003
  10. ncbi Amino acid substitutions at conserved tyrosine 52 alter fidelity and bypass efficiency of human DNA polymerase eta
    Eitan Glick
    The Joseph Gottstein Memorial Cancer Research Laboratory, Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 357705, USA
    J Biol Chem 278:19341-6. 2003

Collaborators

  • T A Kunkel
  • Youri I Pavlov
  • Shigenori Iwai
  • Peter Karran
  • T Nohmi
  • LAWRENCE LOEB
  • G Maga
  • Fumio Hanaoka
  • Ayako N Sakamoto
  • Flavia Barone
  • Qingcong Lin
  • Min Wang
  • Robert J Kokoska
  • Eitan Glick
  • Peter MacPherson
  • Grace E Kissling
  • Masami Yamada
  • Filomena Mazzei
  • Jana E Stone
  • Margherita Bignami
  • Anna Minoprio
  • Tao Yuan
  • Alan B Clark
  • Roderick T Bronson
  • Raju Kucherlapati
  • Wanda Holliday
  • Katarzyna Bebenek
  • Yian Wang
  • Kunliang Guan
  • Haris G Vikis
  • Colleen Anna
  • Ming You
  • Theodora R Devereux
  • Elinor T Adman
  • Kellie L Vigna
  • Janice S Chau

Detail Information

Publications15

  1. ncbi The fidelity of DNA synthesis by eukaryotic replicative and translesion synthesis polymerases
    Scott D McCulloch
    Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 7633, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
    Cell Res 18:148-61. 2008
    ....
  2. ncbi Effects of accessory proteins on the bypass of a cis-syn thymine-thymine dimer by Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA polymerase eta
    Scott D McCulloch
    Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
    Biochemistry 46:8888-96. 2007
    ..Thus, although accessory proteins clearly participate in pol eta functions in vivo, they do not appear to help suppress UV mutagenesis by improving pol eta bypass fidelity per se...
  3. ncbi Multiple solutions to inefficient lesion bypass by T7 DNA polymerase
    Scott D McCulloch
    Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, United States
    DNA Repair (Amst) 5:1373-83. 2006
    ....
  4. ncbi Measuring the fidelity of translesion DNA synthesis
    Scott D McCulloch
    Laboratory for Molecular Genetics, NIEHS-NIH, North Carolina, USA
    Methods Enzymol 408:341-55. 2006
    ..The assay can be used with other lesions in various sequence contexts and with other polymerases with or without accessory proteins...
  5. ncbi Enzymatic switching for efficient and accurate translesion DNA replication
    Scott D McCulloch
    Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 32:4665-75. 2004
    ....
  6. ncbi Efficiency, fidelity and enzymatic switching during translesion DNA synthesis
    Scott D McCulloch
    Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
    Cell Cycle 3:580-3. 2004
    ..Several observations from that study were unanticipated. Here we discuss the structural and biological implications of those results in light of earlier studies of translesion synthesis...
  7. ncbi Preferential cis-syn thymine dimer bypass by DNA polymerase eta occurs with biased fidelity
    Scott D McCulloch
    Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
    Nature 428:97-100. 2004
    ..Thus, in normal people and particularly in individuals with NER-defective xeroderma pigmentosum who accumulate dimers, errors made by Pol eta during dimer bypass could contribute to mutagenesis and skin cancer...
  8. ncbi The efficiency and specificity of apurinic/apyrimidinic site bypass by human DNA polymerase eta and Sulfolobus solfataricus Dpo4
    Robert J Kokoska
    Laboratories of Molecular Genetics and Structural Biology, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
    J Biol Chem 278:50537-45. 2003
    ....
  9. ncbi Nick-dependent and -independent processing of large DNA loops in human cells
    Scott D McCulloch
    Graduate Center for Toxicology, Lucille P. Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, USA
    J Biol Chem 278:50803-9. 2003
    ..In addition, our data also suggest that an aphidicolin-sensitive DNA polymerase is involved in the excision step of the nick-directed loop repair pathway...
  10. ncbi Amino acid substitutions at conserved tyrosine 52 alter fidelity and bypass efficiency of human DNA polymerase eta
    Eitan Glick
    The Joseph Gottstein Memorial Cancer Research Laboratory, Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 357705, USA
    J Biol Chem 278:19341-6. 2003
    ....
  11. ncbi Pol iota is a candidate for the mouse pulmonary adenoma resistance 2 locus, a major modifier of chemically induced lung neoplasia
    Min Wang
    Department of Surgery and The Alvin J Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Cancer Res 64:1924-31. 2004
    ..Thus, our data support the Pol iota gene as a modifier of lung tumorigenesis by altering DNA polymerase activity...
  12. ncbi Increased susceptibility to UV-induced skin carcinogenesis in polymerase eta-deficient mice
    Qingcong Lin
    Harvard Medical School Partners Healthcare Center for Genetics and Genomics, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Cancer Res 66:87-94. 2006
    ..5% of pol eta heterozygous mice also developed skin cancer during 5 months after a 5-month exposure to UV light, suggesting that humans who are heterozygous for mutations in pol eta may also have an increased risk of skin cancer...
  13. ncbi Replication of 2-hydroxyadenine-containing DNA and recognition by human MutSalpha
    Flavia Barone
    Unit of Experimental Carcinogenesis, Department of Environment and Primary Prevention, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
    DNA Repair (Amst) 6:355-66. 2007
    ..MutSalpha also recognized 2-OH-A located in a repeat sequence that mimics a frameshift intermediate...
  14. ncbi Mutator alleles of yeast DNA polymerase zeta
    Ayako N Sakamoto
    Research Group for Gene Resources, Department of Ion Beam Applied Biology, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Watanuki machi 1233, Takasaki, Gunma 370 1292, Japan
    DNA Repair (Amst) 6:1829-38. 2007
    ..Reduced fidelity with retention of robust polymerase activity suggests that the homologous rev3-L979F allele may be useful for analyzing pol zeta functions in mammals, where REV3 deletion is lethal...
  15. ncbi Bi-directional processing of DNA loops by mismatch repair-dependent and -independent pathways in human cells
    Scott D McCulloch
    Graduate Center for Toxicology, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington 40536, USA
    J Biol Chem 278:3891-6. 2003
    ..e. excision is conducted by exonucleases from the pre-existing strand break to the heterology), the processing of the heterology in substrates with a 3' strand break is consistent with the involvement of endonucleases...

Research Grants2

  1. The role of human DNA polymerase eta in the mutagenic response to oxidative stres
    SCOTT MCCULLOCH; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..This will help us better understand specifically how exposure to such chemicals affects human health, and possibly to predict the affects of other agents that also cause oxidative stress. ..
  2. The role of human DNA polymerase eta in the mutagenic response to oxidative stres
    SCOTT DAVID MCCULLOCH; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..This will help us better understand specifically how exposure to such chemicals affects human health, and possibly to predict the affects of other agents that also cause oxidative stress. ..