Press Release: WRNing for the Right DNA Repair Pathway Choice

BUFFALO, NY- June 16, 2022 – A new editorial paper was published in Aging (Aging-US) Volume 14, Issue 11, entitled, “WRNing for the right DNA repair pathway choice.” Premature aging diseases, also called ‘progeroid syndrome’, display signs and features of normal aging in early life, ultimately leading to premature death. Although progeroid syndromes do not perfectly mimic chronological aging, they can be excellent model systems to study characteristics of normal aging. Werner syndrome (WS) is one of the rare autosomal recessive progeroid syndromes, characterized by accelerated aging. WRN is suggested to play a central role in maintaining genome stability and rapidly recruits to the DNA damage sites to take part in DNA repair, including base excision DNA repair (BER), classical/alternative non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), homologous recombination (HR), and replication re-start after DNA damage. WRN makes critical DNA-repair pathway choices between classical and alternative NHEJs. In addition to its key role in NHEJ, WRN has been suggested to also participate in HR. However, how it regulates the pathway choice between NHEJ and HR was still unclear. Full press release - https://aging-us.net/2022/06/16/aging-us-wrning-for-the-right-dna-repair-pathway-choice/ DOI: https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204120 Corresponding Author: Vilhelm A. Bohr - vbohr@nih.gov Keywords: DNA repair, RecQ helicase, helicase, DNA double strand repair pathways Sign up for free Altmetric alerts about this article: https://aging.altmetric.com/details/email_updates?id=10.18632%2Faging.204120 About Aging-US: Launched in 2009, Aging (Aging-US) publishes papers of general interest and biological significance in all fields of aging research and age-related diseases, including cancer—and now, with a special focus on COVID-19 vulnerability as an age-dependent syndrome. Topics in Aging go beyond traditional gerontology, including, but not limited to, cellular and molecular biology, human age-related diseases, pathology in model organisms, signal transduction pathways (e.g., p53, sirtuins, and PI-3K/AKT/mTOR, among others), and approaches to modulating these signaling pathways. Follow Aging on social media: SoundCloud – https://soundcloud.com/Aging-Us Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/AgingUS/ Twitter – https://twitter.com/AgingJrnl Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/agingjrnl/ YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/agingus​ LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/aging/ Pinterest – https://www.pinterest.com/AgingUS/ For media inquiries, please contact media@impactjournals.com.