Bibliographic citations
Castromonte, M., (2021). Estudio comparativo de secuencias y estructuras 3D de proteínas reparadoras de ADN ortólogas en ballenas y elefantes [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/9285
Castromonte, M., Estudio comparativo de secuencias y estructuras 3D de proteínas reparadoras de ADN ortólogas en ballenas y elefantes []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/9285
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title = "Estudio comparativo de secuencias y estructuras 3D de proteínas reparadoras de ADN ortólogas en ballenas y elefantes",
author = "Castromonte Albinagorta, María Teresa Marcia",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2021"
}
Cancer is a disease that affects humans and domestic and wild animals. Each additional cell and year of life should increase the probability of carcinogenesis, nevertheless, the rate of cancer does not have a direct function with the size of the animal. The Peto paradox points out that there is no association between body size, longevity, and cancer risk between species and predicts that animals with large body sizes would develop unique mechanisms to evade cancer. Different hypotheses have been put forward to solve it, and although DNA repair genes have been mentioned among them, they have not been specifically investigated at a structural and functional level of their proteins. DNA repair is a mechanism that prevents the accumulation of mutations in the genome and its pathways are highly conserved. In carcinogenesis, the DNA repair machinery is damaged, this generates genomic instability that promotes cell transformation. The binding of DNA repair proteins to nucleic acid is through domains that show high residue conservation. It has been documented that whales show a cancer avoidance strategy inclined to DNA repair since they present amplifications in their repair genes, whereas elephants have a strategy directed towards apoptosis through TP53. This suggests that whales have a more efficient and successful DNA repair mechanism compared to elephants, which could be explained by the structure and function of repair proteins. A comparative study of the amino acid sequences and 3D structures of orthologous human DNA repair proteins in whales, elephants and mice is proposed.
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