excision repair

collocation in English

meaningsofexcisionandrepair

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excision
noun[U]
uk
/ekˈsɪʒ.ən/us
/ekˈsɪʒ.ən/
formal
the act of ...
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repair
noun[C or U]
uk
/rɪˈpeər/us
/rɪˈper/
the act of fixing something that is broken ...
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(Definition ofexcisionandrepairfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexcision repair

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A failure in the nucleotideexcisionrepairsystem of the cell could produce strand breaks.
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Nucleotideexcisionrepairand baseexcisionrepairare good candidates for this mechanism.
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Dimers may be repaired by photoreactivation or nucleotideexcisionrepair, but unrepaired dimers are mutagenic.
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The related nucleotideexcisionrepairpathway repairs bulky helix-distorting lesions.
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In general, the findings of these studies indicated a good correlation between nucleotideexcisionrepaircapacity and life span.
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Nucleotideexcisionrepairis a more general mechanism for repair of lesions.
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They found that nucleotideexcisionrepaircapability increased systematically with species longevity.
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The photolyase mechanism is no longer working in humans and other placental mammals who instead rely on the less efficient nucleotideexcisionrepairmechanism.
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This block can only be relieved by a repair system called nucleotideexcisionrepair.
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This disease resulted from two alleles activating mutations on nucleotideexcisionrepair.
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When baseexcisionrepairin the cell is compromised, mutations in other genes build up, leading to cell overgrowth and possibly tumor formation.
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It is involved in transcription-coupledexcisionrepair.
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It is involved in baseexcisionrepair.
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Nucleotideexcisionrepairproteins are mobilized to this area where one likely outcome is the expansion of nucleotides in the template strand while the other is the absence of nucleotides.
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