Abasic site recognition by two apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease families in DNA base excision repair: The 3' ends justify the means

Mutation Research - DNA Repair

Volumn 460, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 211-229

  Mol, Clifford D ^a   Hosfield, David J ^a   Tainer, John A ^a  

^a Department of Cell and Molecular Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Abasic sites; AP endonucleases; DNA base excision repair; DNA damage

Indexed keywords

DNA (APURINIC OR APYRIMIDINIC SITE) LYASE;

BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA DAMAGE; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION REPAIR; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ZIZIPHUS MAURITIANA;

EID: 0034734377     PISSN: 09218777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8777(00)00028-8     Document Type: Article

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