Structural aspects of polycyclic aromatic carcinogen-damaged DNA and its recognition by NER proteins

Separation Methods In Microanalytical Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 263-296

  Geacintov, Nicholas E ^a   Naegeli, Hanspeter ^b   Patel, Dinshaw J ^c   Broyde, Suse ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

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