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Tobacco smoke carcinogens exacerbate APOBEC mutagenesis and carcinogenesis
February 5, 2025
The in vivo studies conducted here with NQO treatment of human APOBEC3B expressing mice reveal a strong synergy at the pathological level through tumor formation and at the molecular level through mutational signature. This is a striking one-way synergy in which A3B SBS2 mutational events increase synergistically but NQO SBS4 events do not. Read here: […]
$6 million CPRIT Recruitment of Established Investigators award
April 18, 2023
A five-year, $6 million CPRIT Recruitment of Established Investigators award — one of only three awarded statewide in this round of funding — is helping UT Health San Antonio to recruit Reuben S. Harris, PhD, professor of biochemistry, molecular biology and biophysics and associate director of the Institute of Molecular Virology at the University of Minnesota. […]