Excision repair--its bacterial beginnings.
Nucleotide excision repair was first reported in 1964 by Setlow and Carrier and by Boyce and Howard-Flanders. These two reports clearly defined the existence in bacteria of a repair process that physically removed damaged sites, pyrimidine dimers, from the DNA in the form of acid-soluble fragments. These reports were the starting point for subsequent development of the whole field of DNA excision point.
Cleaver
James E
JE
Auerbaok Melanoma Laboratory, UCSF Cancer Center, Room N431, University of California, PO Box 0808, San Francisco, CA 94143-0808, USA. jcleaver@cc.ucsf.edu
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