title: Celebrating DNA's Repair Crew.
abstract: This year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Aziz Sancar, and Paul Modrich for their seminal studies of the mechanisms by which cells from bacteria to man repair DNA damage that is generated by normal cellular metabolism and stress from the environment. These studies beautifully illustrate the remarkable power of DNA repair to influence life from evolution through disease susceptibility.
authors.affiliation: Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA. Electronic address: kunkel@niehs.nih.gov.
authors.forename: Thomas A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Kunkel
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000378:metabolism; D002621:Chemistry / Q000266:history*; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry; D004249:DNA Damage; D004260:DNA Repair; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000378:metabolism; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009613:Nobel Prize
chemical_list: D004247:DNA