Nucleotide excision refers to a process in which a damaged or incorrect piece of DNA (called a nucleotide) is removed and replaced with the correct one. It's like fixing a mistake in the DNA code to ensure that it functions properly. Full definition
A multinational research team led by Richard Wood of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's Clare Hall laboratories in Hertfordshire has recreated this vital mechanism, called nucleotide excision repair (NER), in the test tube. (newscientist.com)
ERCC1 - XPF is an endonuclease complex required for nucleotide excision repair, interstrand crosslink repair and the repair of a subset of DNA double - strand breaks. (fightaging.org)
Now scientists from the UNC School of Medicine have confirmed and clarified key molecular details of one of these repair systems, known as nucleotide excision repair. (sciencedaily.com)