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Is base excision repair a tumor suppressor mechanism?
Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) - 1 Feb 2006
Sweasy Joann B, Lang Tieming, DiMaio Daniel
Abstract excerpt
The base excision repair pathway is critical for the removal of oxidized and methylated bases from the DNA. Much of this DNA damage arises endogenously, as a result of oxygen metabolism. Several proteins including DNA glycosylases, the APE1 endonuclease, DNA polymerase beta and DNA ligase, act in a highly regulated and coordinated manner during base excision repair to excise the base adducts from the DNA and...
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