nucleotide excision repair pathway (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

nucleotide excision repair pathway

Caption

The Summit supercomputer revealed how damaged strands of DNA are surgically repaired by a molecular pathway called nucleotide excision repair, or NER. NER’s protein components can change shape to perform different functions of repair on broken strands of DNA (blue and red helix).

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Tanmoy Paul, Georgia State University

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