How the misincorporation of ribonucleotides into genomic DNA can be both harmful and helpful to cells

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 10226-10234

  Potenski, Catherine J ^a   Klein, Hannah L ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE DELTA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE EPSILON; DNA POLYMERASE; GENOMIC DNA; RIBONUCLEASE H; RIBONUCLEASE H2; RIBONUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA; RIBONUCLEASE HII;

AICARDI GOUTIERES SYNDROME; CATALYSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRESS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; EXCISION REPAIR; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; MATING TYPE; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; REVIEW; RIBONUCLEOTIDE EXCISION REPAIR; CHEMISTRY; GENOME; METABOLISM;

DNA; DNA REPLICATION; GENOME; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; RIBONUCLEASE H; RIBONUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 84921329939     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku773     Document Type: Review

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