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Coupling of the nucleotide incision and 3'-->5' exonuclease activities in Escherichia coli endonuclease IV: Structural and genetic evidences.
Mutation research - 1 Mar 2010
Golan Gali, Ishchenko Alexander A, Khassenov Bekbolat, Shoham Gil, Saparbaev Murat K
Abstract excerpt
Aerobic respiration generates reactive oxygen species (ROS) as a by-product of cellular metabolism which can damage DNA. The complex nature of oxidative DNA damage requires actions of several repair pathways. Oxidized DNA bases are substrates for two overlapping pathways: base excision repair (BER) and nucleotide incision repair (NIR). In the BER pathway a DNA glycosylase cleaves the N-glycosylic bond between the...
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