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)
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)
Guo R, Chen J, Zhu F, Biswas AK, Berton TR, Mitchell DL, Johnson DG (2010) E2F1 localizes to sites of UV - induced DNA damage to enhance nucleotide excision repair. (mdanderson.org)