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Abstract
Ultraviolet light damages DNA by converting two adjacent thymines into a thymine dimer which is potentially mutagenic, carcinogenic, or lethal to the organism. This damage is repaired by photolyase and the nucleotide excision repair system in E. coli by nucleotide excision repair in humans. The work leading to these results is presented by Aziz Sancar in his Nobel Lecture.Entities:
Keywords: Maxicell method; circadian clock; cryptochrome; nucleotide excision repair; photoreactivation
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27337655 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201601524
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl ISSN: 1433-7851 Impact factor: 15.336