DNA Damage and Transcription Elongation: Consequences and RNA Integrity

The Chemical Biology of DNA Damage

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 399-437

  Dreij, Kristian ^a   Burns, John A ^a   Dimitri, Alexandra ^a   Nirenstein, Lana ^a   Noujnykh, Taissia ^a   Scicchitano, David A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulky adduct; DNA cross link; DNA damage; RNA Integrity; RNA polymerase; Transcription elongation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874722387     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527630110.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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