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Leona D. Samson

Professor Emerita, Biological Engineering, Biology MIT
Verified email at mit.edu
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The Lancet Commission on pollution and health

…, J Ramesh, J Rockström, C Salinas, LD Samson… - The lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world
today. Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature …

Balancing repair and tolerance of DNA damage caused by alkylating agents

D Fu, JA Calvo, LD Samson - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2012 - nature.com
Alkylating agents constitute a major class of frontline chemotherapeutic drugs that inflict
cytotoxic DNA damage as their main mode of action, in addition to collateral mutagenic damage. …

Base excision repair in yeast and mammals

A Memisoglu, L Samson - Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular …, 2000 - Elsevier
Base excision repair (BER), as initiated by at least seven different DNA glycosylases or by
enzymes that cleave DNA at abasic sites, executes the repair of a wide variety of DNA …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic discovery of in vivo phosphorylation networks

…, V Nguyen, A Pasculescu, J Jin, JG Park, LD Samson… - Cell, 2007 - cell.com
Protein kinases control cellular decision processes by phosphorylating specific substrates.
Thousands of in vivo phosphorylation sites have been identified, mostly by proteome-wide …

A new pathway for DNA repair in Escherichia coli

L Samson, J Cairns - Nature, 1977 - nature.com
… and trp B, are widely separated from the remaining pathway genes; this gene pair is regulated
through induction by the substrate, indoleglycerol phosphate, rather than repression by L-…

[HTML][HTML] DNA damage induced by chronic inflammation contributes to colon carcinogenesis in mice

…, PC Dedon, JG Fox, LD Samson - The Journal of …, 2008 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Chronic inflammation increases cancer risk. While it is clear that cell signaling elicited by
inflammatory cytokines promotes tumor development, the impact of DNA damage production …

Ferricytochrome c: I. general features of the horse and bonito proteins at 2.8 A resolution

…, T Takano, D Eisenberg, OB Kallai, L Samson… - Journal of Biological …, 1971 - Elsevier
… complex (l-3). One of the goals of the present x-ray analysis is to understand how electron
transfer … or poly-L-lysine compete with cytochrome c for the oxidase. with certain key regions or …

The human gut bacterial genotoxin colibactin alkylates DNA

…, A Carrá, CA Brennan, E Chun, L Ngo, LD Samson… - Science, 2019 - science.org
… These experiments revealed that the expected building blocks l-[2,3- 13 C 2 ]Ala, l-[1- 13
C]Met, [1,2- 13 C 2 ]Gly, and l-[1- 13 C]Cys were incorporated into the two adducts (figs. S4 to S8…

Global response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to an alkylating agent

SA Jelinsky, LD Samson - Proceedings of the National …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
DNA chip technology enables simultaneous examination of how ≈6,200 Saccharomyces
cerevisiae gene transcript levels, representing the entire genome, respond to environmental …

A microscale in vitro physiological model of the liver: predictive screens for drug metabolism and enzyme induction

…, BJ Hogan, DB Stolz, R Fry, LD Samson… - Current drug …, 2005 - ingentaconnect.com
In vitro models of the liver using isolated primary hepatocytes have been used as screens
for measuring the metabolism, toxicity and efficacy of xenobiotics, for studying hepatocyte …