Not exact matches
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.
If RNA polymerase encounters a lesion
in DNA, the theory went, backtracking could make room for
repair enzymes to fly
in, cut out the damaged section, and rebuild a normal chain
in a process called
nucleotide excision DNA
repair (NER).
Mitchell D, Paniker L, Godar D (2012)
Nucleotide excision repair is reduced
in oral epithelial tissues compared with skin.