The goal of this protocol is to describe how to use laser microirradiation to induce different types of DNA damage, including relatively simple strand breaks and complex damage, to study DNA damage signaling and repair factor assembly at damage sites in vivo.
Kong, X., Cruz, G. M., Silva, B. A., Wakida, N. M., Khatibzadeh, N., Berns, M. W., Yokomori, K. Laser Microirradiation to Study In Vivo Cellular Responses to Simple and Complex DNA Damage. J. Vis. Exp. (131), e56213, doi:10.3791/56213 (2018).