Recognition in action: flipping pyrimidine dimers
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Atomic Force Microscopy Investigations of DNA Lesion Recognition in Nucleotide Excision Repair
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1Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA. goodsell@scripps.edu
Journal of Molecular Recognition : JMR
|April 29, 2005
Abstract:
DNA bases are normally sheltered within a double helix, but enzymes that modify and repair DNA gain access by flipping individual bases out of the double helix.
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