Base excision repair in yeast and mammals

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 451, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 39-51

  Memisoglu, Asli ^a   Samson, Leona ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Base excision repair; Mammals; Yeast

Indexed keywords

DNA (APURINIC OR APYRIMIDINIC SITE) LYASE; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE;

DNA REPAIR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION REPAIR; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CARBON-OXYGEN LYASES; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE IV (PHAGE T4-INDUCED); DNA REPAIR; DNA-(APURINIC OR APYRIMIDINIC SITE) LYASE; DNA-FORMAMIDOPYRIMIDINE GLYCOSYLASE; ENZYMES; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; HUMANS; MAMMALS; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; YEASTS;

MAMMALIA; ZIZIPHUS MAURITIANA;

EID: 0034733694     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(00)00039-7     Document Type: Review

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