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- base excision repair | BER
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- Definition one of the three excision repair mechanisms that employ all organisms in order to repair their DNA by removing small, non-helix-distorting base lesions from the genome Reference COM-EN, based on:Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_excision_repair [1.3.2011]
- Comment The related nucleotide excision repair pathway repairs bulky helix-distorting lesions. BER is important for removing damaged bases that could otherwise cause mutations by mispairing or lead to breaks in DNA during replication.