DNA Mismatch Repair: Difference between revisions
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==General Description== | ==General Description== | ||
"A system for the correction of errors in which an incorrect base, which cannot form hydrogen bonds with the corresponding base in the parent strand, is incorporated into the daughter strand. The mismatch repair system promotes genomic fidelity by repairing base-base mismatches, insertion-deletion loops and heterologies generated during DNA replication and recombination." [ISBN:0198506732 "Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology" | "A system for the correction of errors in which an incorrect base, which cannot form hydrogen bonds with the corresponding base in the parent strand, is incorporated into the daughter strand. The mismatch repair system promotes genomic fidelity by repairing base-base mismatches, insertion-deletion loops and heterologies generated during DNA replication and recombination." [ISBN:0198506732 "Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology"] | ||
==Components== | ==Components== | ||
Revision as of 17:43, 19 August 2010
General Description
"A system for the correction of errors in which an incorrect base, which cannot form hydrogen bonds with the corresponding base in the parent strand, is incorporated into the daughter strand. The mismatch repair system promotes genomic fidelity by repairing base-base mismatches, insertion-deletion loops and heterologies generated during DNA replication and recombination." [ISBN:0198506732 "Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology"]