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. 2002 Mar 5;99(5):2581-3.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.062062599.

A cut above: discovery of an alternative excision repair pathway in bacteria

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A cut above: discovery of an alternative excision repair pathway in bacteria

Bennett Van Houten et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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A schematic depiction of the steps of nucleotide excision repair in E. coli that follow the initial recognition/verification of a lesion. (A) Dual incisions by UvrC (green) at a lesion (yellow) or a 3′ side incision by Cho (red) followed by the 5′ side incision by UvrC (A Right), at a lesion that obscures the normal 3′ incision site for UvrC. Incisions, in both situations, are followed by excision, repair replication, and ligation, but a four-nucleotide-longer patch results from the participation of Cho. (B) Putative steps when UvrC is missing and where Cho makes only a 3′ incision. In this case it is supposed that a 3′ exonuclease removes a stretch of DNA of indeterminate length containing the lesion, and that a much longer patch would be introduced by repair replication.

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