When skin cells are hit by UVB light, they can die and send out inflammation signals — but this happens even if their DNA damage repair system is broken, so that system isn't needed for this response.

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The ribotoxic stress response drives acute inflammation, cell death, and epidermal thickening in UV-irradiated skin in vivo

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2024 Dec 19

The study shows that UVB light triggers skin cell damage and inflammation through a stress signal from the cell's protein-making machinery, not from DNA damage, which supports the idea that this process happens independently of DNA repair systems.

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The ribotoxic stress response drives acute inflammation, cell death, and epidermal thickening in UV-irradiated skin in vivo

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DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2024.10.044

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