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Evidence that msh1p plays multiple roles in mitochondrial base excision repair.
Genetics - 1 Jul 2009
Pogorzala Leah, Mookerjee Shona, Sia Elaine A
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial DNA is thought to be especially prone to oxidative damage by reactive oxygen species generated through electron transport during cellular respiration. This damage is mitigated primarily by the base excision repair (BER) pathway, one of the few DNA repair pathways with confirmed activity on mitochondrial DNA. Through genetic epistasis analysis of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we examined the...
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