title: Prioritizing the repair of DNA damage that is encountered by RNA polymerase.
abstract: Transcription-coupled DNA repair pathways enable lesions that block transcription to be repaired more quickly than similar lesions in other parts of the genome. Here I consider the recent progress that has been made in understanding how bacteria prioritize certain lesions for nucleotide excision repair.
authors.affiliation: DNA-Protein Interactions Unit; School of Biochemistry; University of Bristol; Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Nigel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Savery