Apurinic/apyrimidinic Endonuclease

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Contents 1 More Specific Terms 2 Introduction 3 More General Terms 4 References

More Specific Terms

• apurinic endonuclease APN1
• DNA-(apurinic or apyrimidinic site) lyase, AP endonuclease-1, APEX nuclease or redox repair function-1 (ref1)

Introduction

• Endonucleases that cleave at apurinic/apyrimidinic sites of DNA damage in the process of DNA base excision repair.

More General Terms

• biochemistry

References

Alperts et al Molecular Biology of the Cell, Garland Publishing, New York, NY 1989

apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease