Mechanisms of direct radiation damage in DNA, based on a study of the yields of base damage, deoxyribose damage, and trapped radicals in d(GCACGCGTGC)2

Radiation Research

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 367-381

  Swarts, Steven G ^a   Gilbert, David C ^a   Sharma, Kiran K ^a   Razskazovskiy, Yuriy ^a   Purkayastha, Shubhadeep ^a   Naumenko, Katerina A ^a   Bernhard, William A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Dept of Biochemistry and Biophysics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBOSE; DNA BASE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; RADICAL; FREE RADICAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DOSE RESPONSE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; X IRRADIATION; BASE PAIRING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; X RAY;

BASE PAIRING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEOXYRIBOSE; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FREE RADICALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RADIATION DOSAGE; X-RAYS;

EID: 35348839663     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR1058.1     Document Type: Article

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