DNA photolyase: Is the nonproductive back electron transfer really much slower than forward transfer?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Brettel, Klaus ^a   Byrdin, Martin ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTOLYASE; NUCLEOTIDE; PYRIMIDINE DIMER; QUERCETIN;

ABSORPTION; BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMICAL BOND; DNA REPAIR; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; KINETICS; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTO-LYASE; DNA REPAIR; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; PYRIMIDINE DIMERS;

EID: 84861849695     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1202795109     Document Type: Letter

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