“…Several mechanisms have been suggested for the observed enhancement of DNA repair by p53. These include transcriptional upregulation of DNA repair factors such as DDB2 and XPC (Adimoolam and Ford, 2002;Amundson et al, 2002;Tan and Chu, 2002;Fitch et al, 2003), recruitment of repair factors to sites of DNA damage through physical interaction with p53 (Wang et al, 2003) and the ability of p53 to function as a chromatin accessibility factor to allow access of repair factors to sites of damage (Rubbi and Milner, 2003). Given that E2F1 can upregulate the expression of a number of DNA repair genes (Wang et al, 1999;Polager et al, 2002;Ren et al, 2002) and that E2F1 physically associates with several DNA repair factors (Hayes et al, 1998;Maser et al, 2001;Liu et al, 2003), it is quite possible that like p53, the antiapoptotic effect of E2F1 is related to a stimulation of DNA repair.…”