Science news articles about 'nucleotide excision repair'

... ATR protein in a specific DNA repair system, which is called nucleotide excision repair or NER," says Elliot ... é de Montréal. "NER is a critical DNA repair system that removes pieces of damaged DNA ...

... that XPD does in the TFIIH complex, in the cell, is unwind DNA to allow nucleotide excision repair to occur -- that's its critical function. Helicase activity measures that unwinding. And you can't ...

... enzyme system implicated – called nucleotide excision repair– repairs many types of DNA damage ... Sancar and his colleagues studied the behavior of the repair machinery in cerebrum or brain tissue of mice ...