Thermostable uracil-DNA glycosylase from Thermotoga maritima, a member of a novel class of DNA repair enzymes

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 531-534

  Sandigursky, Margarita ^a   Franklin, William A ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; TREPONEMA;

EID: 0033587149     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80237-1     Document Type: Article

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