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By Judith Campbell, and Paul Modrich (Eds.)

This quantity presents certain insurance of contemporary tools for molecular research of enzymes and enzyme platforms that functionality within the upkeep of genome integrity. insurance components contain base excision fix, nucleotide excision fix, translesion DNA polymerases, mismatch fix, genetic recombination, and double strand holiday fix.

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