Nucleotide excision repair of 2-acetylaminofluorene-and 2-aminofluorene-(C8)-guanine adducts: Molecular dynamics simulations elucidate how lesion structure and base sequence context impact repair efficiencies

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 9675-9690

  Mu, Hong ^a   Kropachev, Konstantin ^a   Wang, Lihua ^a   Zhang, Lu ^a   Kolbanovskiy, Alexander ^a   Kolbanovskiy, Marina ^a   Geacintov, Nicholas E ^a   Broyde, Suse ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 FLUORENYLAMINE; GUANINE; N (2 FLUORENYL)ACETAMIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ADDUCT; EXCISION REPAIR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIMULATION;

2-ACETYLAMINOFLUORENE; BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYGUANOSINE; DNA ADDUCTS; DNA REPAIR; FLUORENES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 84868133144     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks788     Document Type: Article

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