“…4NQO-induced DNA lesions are mainly repaired by GGR (Snyderwine and Bohr, 1992), while pyrimidine dimers, the most abundant UV-induced DNA lesions, are principally repaired by TCR (Mellon et al, 1987). Several cell lines derived from patients of xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) and Cockayne syndrome group B (CSB), autosomal recessive inherited disorders with NER inactivation, showed hypersensitivity to 4NQO (Walker, 1981;Dollery et al, 1983;Edwards et al, 1987;Moriwaki et al, 1993;Prince et al, 1999;Muftuoglu et al, 2002). In addition, cells from patients of two types of RecQ helicase-deficiency diseases, Werner syndrome and Bloom syndrome, were also remarkably sensitive to 4NQO (Prince et al, 1999;Imamura et al, 2002;Miao et al, 2006).…”