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SUBMITTER: Wirth N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5009266 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wirth Nicolas N Gross Jonas J Roth Heide M HM Buechner Claudia N CN Kisker Caroline C Tessmer Ingrid I
The Journal of biological chemistry 20160712 36
Nucleotide excision repair is an important and highly conserved DNA repair mechanism with an exceptionally large range of chemically and structurally unrelated targets. Lesion verification is believed to be achieved by the helicases UvrB and XPD in the prokaryotic and eukaryotic processes, respectively. Using single molecule atomic force microscopy analyses, we demonstrate that UvrB and XPD are able to load onto DNA and pursue lesion verification in the absence of the initial lesion detection pr ...[more]