Trypanosoma cruzi contains a single detectable uracil-DNA glycosylase and repairs uracil exclusively via short patch base excision repair

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 342, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 787-799

  Peña Diaz, Javier ^a,b   Akbari, Mansour ^b   Sundheim, Ottar ^b   Esther Farez Vidal, M ^a   Andersen, Sonja ^b   Sneve, Ragnhild ^b   Gonzalez Pacanowska, Dolores ^a   Krokan, Hans E ^b   Slupphaug, Geir ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE PARASITOLOGÍA Y BIOMEDICINA LÓPEZ NEYRA   (Spain)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

base excision repair; Trypanosoma cruzi; Ugi; uracil analogues; uracil DNA glycosylase

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; URACIL DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE DELETION; INHIBITION KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VERTEBRATA; ZIZIPHUS MAURITIANA;

EID: 4444268722     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.07.043     Document Type: Article

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