Nucleotide Excision Repair

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Key Facts

Abbreviation
NER
Pronunciation
/ˈnukliəˌtaɪd ɪkˈsɪʒən rɪˈpɛr/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. Nucleotide excision repair ( NER ) mechanism is essential for the maintenance of organism genome integrity.
  2. There are many DNA repair pathways to different DNA lesions, including base excision repair, nucleotide excision repair, mismatch repair and homologous recombination repair.
  3. Effect of benzopyrene on DNA damage and expression of genes involved in nucleotide excision repair in lung cancer cells
  4. Nucleotide excision repair ( NER ) can recognize a broad spectrum of helix-distorting lesions and is a major repair system of DNA damage.
  5. Objective To investigate the association of polymorphisms of nucleotide excision repair genes and chromosomal damage in peripheral blood lymphocytes among coke-oven workers.

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