Repairing DNA-methylation damage

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 148-157

  Sedgwick, Barbara ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 METHYLADENINE DNA DIOXYGENASE; 2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; 3 METHYLADENINE DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID GLYCOSYLASE; ADA PROTEIN; ALKB DIOXYGENASE; ALKB PROTEIN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTOLYASE; DNA; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FERROUS ION; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; OXYGENASE; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA GLYCOSYLASES; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ADA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0742305875     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1312     Document Type: Review

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