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Versatile protection from mutagenic DNA lesions conferred by bipartite recognition in nucleotide excision repair.
Mutation research - 1 Jan 2000
Maillard Olivier, Camenisch Ulrike, Blagoev Krastan B, Naegeli Hanspeter
Abstract excerpt
Nucleotide excision repair is a cut-and-patch pathway that eliminates potentially mutagenic DNA lesions caused by ultraviolet light, electrophilic chemicals, oxygen radicals and many other genetic insults. Unlike antigen recognition by the immune system, which employs billions of immunoglobulins and T-cell receptors, the nucleotide excision repair complex relies on just a few generic factors to detect an...
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