Structural basis for the recognition and cleavage of abasic DNA in Neisseria meningitidis.
Lu, D., Silhan, J., MacDonald, J.T., Carpenter, E.P., Jensen, K., Tang, C.M., Baldwin, G.S., Freemont, P.S.(2012) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109: 16852-16857
- PubMed: 23035246 
- DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206563109
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4B5F, 4B5G, 4B5H, 4B5I, 4B5J, 4B5M - PubMed Abstract: 
Base excision repair (BER) is a highly conserved DNA repair pathway throughout all kingdoms from bacteria to humans. Whereas several enzymes are required to complete the multistep repair process of damaged bases, apurinic-apyrimidic (AP) endonucleases play an essential role in enabling the repair process by recognizing intermediary abasic sites cleaving the phosphodiester backbone 5' to the abasic site ...