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Uncoupling of the base excision and nucleotide incision repair pathways reveals their respective biological roles.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 21 Feb 2006
Ishchenko Alexander A, Deprez Eric, Maksimenko Andrei, Brochon Jean-Claude, Tauc Patrick, Saparbaev Murat K
Abstract excerpt
The multifunctional DNA repair enzymes apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonucleases cleave DNA at AP sites and 3'-blocking moieties generated by DNA glycosylases in the base excision repair pathway. Alternatively, in the nucleotide incision repair (NIR) pathway, the same AP endonucleases incise DNA 5' of a number of oxidatively damaged bases. At present, the physiological relevance of latter function remains unclear....
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