...rate of skin cancers, including squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) and melanomas (DiGiovanna and Kraemer 2012). The primary
NER pathway, known as global genomic-NER (GG-NER), initiates when the XPC protein (and its cofactors, such as UV-DDB) recognize a bulky, helix-distorting DNA lesion (Scharer 2013...