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  • Magalhães, Yuli T; Farias, Jessica O; Monteiro, Lucas F; Forti, Fábio L

    Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2018, Letnik: 1821
    Journal Article

    Actin polymerization, actomyosin ring contraction, and stress fiber formation are examples of relevant actions of the RhoA/B/C pathway as GTPases that regulate the cytoskeleton. However, open questions that remain to be addressed are whether this pathway and/or downstream components protect against or facilitate the formation of DNA double-strand breaks, the most lethal form of DNA damage in cells. Genotoxic drugs are radiomimetic and/or chemotherapeutic agents that are currently used for cancer treatments and are associated with specific methodologies; thus, these compounds should represent good tools to answer these questions. In this chapter, we describe two methods, the alkaline comet assay and homologous/nonhomologous recombination assays, to investigate the mechanism by which the Rho pathway modulates the repair of DNA breaks in tumor epithelial cell lines.