base excision repair
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base excision repair
[′bās ek′siz·zhən ri‚per] (cell molecular)
A deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) repair system in which an altered base is removed from the sugar backbone by action of a specific DNA glycolase and then the abasic sugar is removed by apurinic/apyrimidic (AP) lyase and AP endonuclease, leaving a one-nucleotide gap that is then filled in and ligated.
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