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DNA Damage Repair by Excision
Description
DNA damage repair by excision protects cells from mutagens that can change DNA. Exposure to environmental mutagens can create bulky lesions that bend the double helix or block transcription. If these changes are not repaired, they can lead to mutations and may contribute to cancer or disease, depending on which DNA sequences...
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Transcript
Exposure of DNA to ultraviolet light and certain chemical carcinogens can cause a bulky lesion. A specific distortion of its normal structure. This type of damage can be fixed by a process called nucleotide excision repair.
The process begins when an enzyme complex, shown here in E. coli, containing the proteins UvrA and UvrB, travels al...
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