Article
Heterogeneity of DNA repair at the gene level.
Mutation research - 1 Apr 1991
Hanawalt P C
Abstract excerpt
Overall genomic DNA repair efficiencies do not necessarily correlate with cellular sensitivities to radiation and other DNA-damaging agents. My colleagues and I have developed experimental approaches to measure DNA lesions and their repair in defined DNA sequences and we have discovered that for some types of damage, such as the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers produced in DNA by ultraviolet light (UV), repair is...
Topics
- Animals
- DNA Damage
- DNA Probes
- DNA Repair
- Models, Biological
- Mutation
- Proto-Oncogenes
- Pyrimidine Dimers
