DNA triplet repeat expansion and mismatch repair

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Volumn 84, Issue , 2015, Pages 199-226

  Iyer, Ravi R ^a   Pluciennik, Anna ^b   Napierala, Marek ^c,d   Wells, Robert D ^e  

^a Teva Branded Pharmaceutical Products R and D Inc ^*  (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

^e TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA mismatch repair; Hereditary neurological diseases; Non B DNA structures; Repeat expansion diseases; Triplet repeats

Indexed keywords

MISMATCH REPAIR PROTEIN; PROTEIN MUTL; PROTEIN MUTS; REPETITIVE DNA; CHROMATIN; HISTONE;

BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CELL CULTURE; CHROMATIN; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DNA STRAND; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TRIPLET REPEAT; GENETIC DISORDER; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTAGENESIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRANSLATION INITIATION; ANIMAL; CONFORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HISTONES; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 84930739064     PISSN: 00664154     EISSN: 15454509     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-060614-034010     Document Type: Review

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