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Pathways for repair of topoisomerase I covalent complexes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Genes to cells : devoted to molecular & cellular mechanisms - 1 Aug 2001
Pouliot J J, Robertson C A, Nash H A
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BACKGROUND: The covalent linkage between DNA and the active site tyrosine of topoisomerase I can be stabilized by chemotherapeutic agents, adjacent DNA lesions, or mutational defects in the topoisomerase itself. Following collision with a replication fork, the covalent complex can be converted to a double-strand break. Tdp1, an enzyme that can hydrolyse the bond between topoisomerase I and DNA, is thought to be...
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