Base excision repair: The long and short of it

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 981-993

  Robertson, A B ^a   Klungland, A ^a   Rognes, T ^a   Leiros, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alkylation; Base excision repair; Deamination; DNA damage; Glycosylase; Oxidation

Indexed keywords

DNA (APURINIC OR APYRIMIDINIC SITE) LYASE; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; DNA POLYMERASE; ENDONUCLEASE; EXONUCLEASE; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

CPG ISLAND; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ALKYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DNA REPAIR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BREAK;

MAMMALIA;

ALKYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA BREAKS, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA DAMAGE; DNA GLYCOSYLASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 62349120246     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-009-8736-z     Document Type: Review

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