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Abstract
Electron spin resonance spectroscopy has been used to study transformation of radicals in DNA and a number of its constituents. It was found that in all the bases irradiated at 77 degrees K, hydrogen-addition radicals were formed on warming. The following mechanism of radical transformation has been proposed: damaged species, probably ion-radicals, release hydrogen atoms on warming, which then add to the undamaged bases, preferentially thymine. Thymine need not be the place of the primary damage.Entities:
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Year: 1969 PMID: 4312756 PMCID: PMC286118 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.64.1.8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205