| 17-AAG | 17-(allylamino)-17-demethoxygeldanamycin |
| 17-DMAG | 17-dimethylaminoethylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin |
| BER | base excision repair |
| DDR | DNA damage response |
| DSB | DNA double-strand break |
| FA | Fanconi anemia |
| HR | homologous recombination repair |
| Hsp90 | heat shock protein 90 |
| IR | ionizing radiation |
| IRIF | IR-induced foci |
| MMR | DNA mismatch repair |
| NHEJ | non-homologous end-joining repair |
| NSCLC | non-small-cell lung cancer |
| Pol η | polymerase η |
| ssDNA | single-stranded regions of DNA |
| SSB | DNA single-strand break |
| TLS | translesion synthesis |