Cleavage of the damaged purine

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R-HSA-110331
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Homo sapiens
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Damaged purines are cleaved from the sugar-phosphate backbone by purine-specific glycosylases (Saparbaev and Laval 1994, Lindahl and Wood 1999).
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PubMed ID Title Journal Year
10583946 Quality control by DNA repair

Lindahl, T, Wood, RD

Science 1999
8016081 Excision of hypoxanthine from DNA containing dIMP residues by the Escherichia coli, yeast, rat, and human alkylpurine DNA glycosylases

Laval, J, Saparbaev, M

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 1994
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