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Poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) is a protein which is widely concerned in the field of cancer treatment in recent years, for it plays an important role in the DNA repair process. PARP activity lies in that it conducts ADP-ribosylation to its substrate proteins through NAD +. When DNA shows breakage, PARP is activated and then makes histone ADP at break sites ribosylated, prompting histone seperates itself from DNA molecule, thereby conducting combination before repairing proteins. The findings were obtained through recombinant rat proteins. On the other hand, because the rate of rapidly DNA breaks of cancer cells which separate rapidly is quite frequent, once PARP is inhibited, DNA damage can accumulate quickly in the cancer cells, ultimately leading to cell death.

However, the role of PARP is not limited to DNA repair, and its medicinal value is also not limited to this. Recently, scientists from the US Southwestern Medical Center have found a wide range of functions in the PARP gene transcriptional regulation and RNA processing, opening up a new direction for cancer therapy development. Their results were published in the recent issues of Science.

"This discovery changes our understanding of the function of PARP, which may open a new field of drug development," corresponding author of the article Professor W. Lee Kraus said.

To systematically analyze the intracellular function site of PARP, the researchers transformed PARP so that it can conduct ADP-ribosylation NAD + substrate proteins which are modified by acetylene group, thus the introduction of the ADP ethynyl cycloaddition reaction may occur with fluorescently labeled molecule with an azide group, thus marking and identifying a number of PARP in cells in vitro substrates, including a variety of proteins as well as sites on the chromosome.

The negative transcription elongation factor (NELF) attracted special attention of researchers. NELF is involved in the pause process of RNA transcription, and this is to ensure that there is enough intracellular ribonucleotide used for the mechanisms of transcription. Under normal circumstances, PARP will conduct ADP- ribosylation to NELF, thus sending the signal of sufficient supply to NELF so that transcription can proceed.

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