excision repair
biology
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DNA metabolism
- In nucleic acid: Repair
…DNA lesions is by an excision repair pathway. Enzymes recognize damage within DNA, probably by detecting an altered conformation of DNA, and then nick the strand on either side of the lesion, allowing a small single-stranded DNA to be excised. DNA polymerase and DNA ligase then repair the single-stranded gap.…
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DNA repair
- In DNA repair
Excision repair can be specific or nonspecific. In base excision repair, DNA glycosylases specifically identify and remove the mismatched base. In nucleotide excision repair, the repair machinery recognizes a wide array of distortions in the double helix caused by mismatched bases; in this form of…
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