Chemical approaches toward understanding base excision DNA repair

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 526-531

  Schärer, Orlando D ^a   Deng, Li ^b   Verdine, Gregory L ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZIZIPHUS MAURITIANA;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE IV; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOSIDE; DNA; DNA (APURINIC OR APYRIMIDINIC SITE) LYASE; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; GLYCOSIDASE; LYASE;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DRUG ANTAGONISM; METABOLISM; REVIEW;

CARBON-OXYGEN LYASES; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE IV (PHAGE T4-INDUCED); DEOXYRIBONUCLEOSIDES; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA GLYCOSYLASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA-(APURINIC OR APYRIMIDINIC SITE) LYASE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES;

EID: 0031323643     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-5931(97)80048-8     Document Type: Article

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