description
Base excision repair is initiated by DNA glycosylases that hydrolytically cleave the base-deoxyribose glycosyl bond of a damaged nucleotide residue, releasing the damaged base (Lindahl and Wood 1999, Sokhansanj et al. 2002)
external resources
NCBI:1270352
REACTOME:R-HSA-73929
PUBMED:10583946
PUBMED:11937636
genes
MPG
,
MUTYH
,
NTHL1
,
OGG1
,
TDG
,
UNG
,
MBD4
,
SMUG1
,
NEIL1
,
NEIL2
,