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Unusual role of a cysteine residue in substrate binding and activity of human AP-endonuclease 1.
Journal of molecular biology - 23 May 2008
Mantha Anil K, Oezguen Numan, Bhakat Kishor K, Izumi Tadahide, Braun Werner, Mitra Sankar
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The mammalian AP-endonuclease (APE1) repairs apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites and strand breaks with 3' blocks in the genome that are formed both endogenously and as intermediates during base excision repair. APE1 has an unrelated activity as a redox activator (and named Ref-1) for several trans-...
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