Biotin requirements for DNA damage prevention

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 733, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 58-60

  Zempleni, Janos ^a   Teixeira, Daniel Camara ^a   Kuroishi, Toshinobu ^a   Cordonier, Elizabeth L ^a   Baier, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotin; Epigenetics; Genome stability; Human; Requirements

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; BIOTIN; HISTONE H3; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HOLOCARBOXYLASE SYNTHETASE; METHYLATED CYTOSINE BINDING PROTEIN 2; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DIETARY INTAKE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; GENE REPRESSION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

BIOTIN; BIOTINYLATION; DNA DAMAGE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84860553658     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: 09218262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2011.08.001     Document Type: Review

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