Prokaryotic nucleotide excision repair

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Kisker, Caroline ^a   Kuper, Jochen ^a   Van Houten, Bennett ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHO PROTEIN, E COLI; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE UVRABC; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; NUCLEOTIDE;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROKARYOTIC CELL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW;

DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NUCLEOTIDES; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84874744349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a012591     Document Type: Article

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