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Early days of DNA repair: discovery of nucleotide excision repair and homology-dependent recombinational repair.
The Yale journal of biology and medicine - 13 Dec 2013
Rupp W Dean
Abstract excerpt
The discovery of nucleotide excision repair in 1964 showed that DNA could be repaired by a mechanism that removed the damaged section of a strand and replaced it accurately by using the remaining intact strand as the template. This result showed that DNA could be actively metabolized in a process that had no precedent. In 1968, experiments describing postreplication repair, a process dependent on homologous...
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