Genome Damage : Repair and Adaptation Across Life.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kannaujiya, Vinod K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

DNA damage.

DNA repair.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (926 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chantilly : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2026.

Summary:

Genome Damage: Repair and Adaptation Across Life explores the significance of nucleic acid damage from environmental pollutants, UV radiation, and other stressors that can lead to mutations, genetic instability, and various diseases, including cancer.

Contents:

Cover image

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

About the editors

Chapter 1 Genome research: Basic concept and recent advances

Chapter 2 UV-mediated damage and repair in bacterial communities

Chapter 3 Implications of oxidative stress on microbial evolution

Chapter 4 DNA photolyase: Structure, mode of action, and therapeutic applications

Chapter 5 DNA repair in extremophiles

Chapter 6 Recent developments in ultraviolet-induced deoxyribonucleic acid damage and repair in higher plants

Chapter 7 Molecular dynamics of ultraviolet-B induced DNA lesions and repair mechanisms in higher plants

Chapter 8 Ionizing radiation-induced mammalian cell damage and repairs

Chapter 9 Ultraviolet-induced DNA damage and repair in mammals

Chapter 10 Oxidative DNA damage: Repair mechanisms and associated disorders in humans

Chapter 11 Detection of DNA damage and repair: A technological development

Chapter 12 Perfluorinated compounds in fish: Ecotoxicological effects, DNA damage and implications for aquatic and human health

Chapter 13 Effects of climate change on nucleic acid composition

Chapter 14 RNA damage and repair mechanisms

Chapter 15 DNA damage and cancer: Advances, risk assessment, and opportunities

Chapter 16 Metal stress, DNA damage, and mutagenesis: Molecular mechanisms and health consequences

Chapter 17 Apoptosis: Cell death and damage

Chapter 18 Phytochemical modulation of DNA repair: Mechanisms, epigenetics, and therapeutic potential

Chapter 19 Significance of algal green chemicals in repair mechanisms

Chapter 20 Phyco-chemicals in DNA repair: Algal and cyanobacterial antioxidants and epigenetic modulators in cellular defense

Chapter 21 DNA damage, aging concept: Feasibility and significance.

Chapter 22 Structural and dynamic signatures of DNA damage in Leishmania : Mechanisms, implications, and therapeutic perspectives

Chapter 23 Impacts of nanoparticles on DNA damage and repair

Chapter 24 DNA mutagenesis and genomic instability induced by heavy metals: Biological and environmental perspectives

Chapter 25 Significance of plant nutraceuticals in DNA repair

Chapter 26 DNA damage and repair: Future perspectives

Index.

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ISBN:

9780443428586

OCLC:

1613770517