http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
xxii, 845 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Dynamics of DNA damage recognition -- In search of damaged bases -- Increased specificity and effciency of base excision repair through complex formation -- Structure and properties of DNA photoproducts -- Damage recognition by DNA photolyases -- Damage recognition by the bacterial nucleotide excision repair machinery -- Recognition of DNA damage during eukaryotic nucleotide excision repair -- Interactions of the transcription machinery with DNA damage in prokaryotes -- DNA repair in actively transcribed genes in eukaryotic cells -- Chromatin structure and the repair of UV light-induced DNA damage -- The ultraviolet damage endonuclease (UVDE) protein and alternative excision repair : a highly diverse system for damage recognition and processing -- Structural aspects of Pt-DNA adduct recognition by proteins -- Structural aspects of polycyclic aromatic carcinogen-damaged DNA and its recognition by NER proteins -- Structural features of DNA glycosylases and AP endonucleases -- Repair of oxidized bases -- Recognition of alkylating agent damage in DNA -- Deaminated bases in DNA -- New paradigms for DNA base excision repair in mammals -- Recognition and repair of abasic sites -- Oxidative mitochondrial DNA damage resistance and repair -- Mechanism of DNA mismatch repair from bacteria to human -- Interaction of the Escherichia coli Vsr with DNa and mismatch repair proteins -- Mechanism of translesion DNA synthesis in Escherichia coli -- Mechanism of bypass polymerases in eukaryotes -- Structural features of bypass polymerases -- Regulation of damage tolerance by the RAD6 pathway -- Bochemical and cellular aspects of homologous recombination -- The mechanism of vertebrate nonhomologous DNA end joining and its role in immune system gene rearrangements -- Structural aspects of Ku and the DNA-dependent protein kinase complex -- Cellular functions of mammalian DNA ligases -- The Mre11/Rad50/Nbs1 complex -- Histone γ-H2AX involvement in DNA double-strand break repair pathways -- DNA strand-break recognition, signaling and resolution : the role of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases-1 and -2 -- Cellular and molecular responses to alkylation damage in DNA -- Damage signals triggering the Escherichia coli SOS response -- Recognition of DNA damage as the initial step of eukaryotic checkpoint arrest -- Responses to replication of DNA damage
edited by Wolfram Siede, Yoke Wah Kow, Paul W. Doetsch.
Includes bibliographical references and index.