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AlkB demethylases flip out in different ways.

Ottar Sundheim1, Vivi A Talstad, Cathrine Broberg Vågbø

  • 1Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Erling Skjalgssons Gate 1, Trondheim, Norway.

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|August 30, 2008
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Researchers visualized DNA repair proteins AlkB and hABH2 interacting with DNA. Differences in how these proteins bind DNA explain their distinct preferences for single-stranded versus double-stranded DNA repair.

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