A Deoxyribozyme, Sero1C, Uses Light and Serotonin to Repair Diverse Pyrimidine Dimers in DNA

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 388, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-29

  Thorne, Rebecca E ^a   Chinnapen, Daniel J F ^a   Sekhon, Gurpreet S ^a   Sen, Dipankar ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

deoxyribozyme; photolyase; pyrimidine dimers; ribozyme; serotonin

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTOLYASE; DEOXYRIBOZYME; DIMER; DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; PYRIMIDINE; SEROTONIN; THYMINE; URACIL;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICHAELIS MENTEN KINETICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOREACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 63449111879     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.02.064     Document Type: Article

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