Uracil in DNA-Its biological significance

Mutation Research - Reviews in Mutation Research

Volumn 705, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 239-245

  Olinski, Ryszard ^a   Jurgowiak, Marek ^a   Zaremba, Tomasz ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Activation induced cytosine deaminase; DNA repair; Somatic hypermutations; Uracil; Uracil glycosylase

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION INDUCED CYTOSINE DEAMINASE; CYTOSINE; DEOXYURIDINE PHOSPHATE; DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE DERIVATIVE; DNA; ENZYME; THYMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URACIL;

CARCINOGENESIS; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMATIN; CROSSING OVER; DEAMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPERMATOCYTE;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOSINE; CYTOSINE DEAMINASE; DNA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME; HUMANS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; URACIL;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 78649323774     PISSN: 13835742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrrev.2010.08.001     Document Type: Review

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