Flap endonuclease 1

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Volumn 82, Issue , 2013, Pages 119-138

  Balakrishnan, Lata ^a   Bambara, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endonucleases; Genome fidelity; Genome stability; Long patch base excision repair; Okazaki fragment maturation

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; DNA POLYMERASE; FLAP ENDONUCLEASE; FLAP ENDONUCLEASE 1; MESYLIC ACID; OKAZAKI FRAGMENT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RIBONUCLEASE H; TEMOZOLOMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACETYLATION; APOPTOSIS; BINDING KINETICS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA METABOLISM; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EXCISION REPAIR; GENOME ANALYSIS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYDROPHOBICITY; MATURATION; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; TELOMERE; THERMUS AQUATICUS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; DNA; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; FLAP ENDONUCLEASES; HUMANS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84878902141     PISSN: 00664154     EISSN: 15454509     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-072511-122603     Document Type: Review

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