Nucleotide excision repair is one of the main pathways for removal of damaged DNA. UvrA, which finds the damaged DNA, has broad specificity. The first crystal structure of UvrA in complex with DNA shows that the UvrA dimer does not contact the lesion directly but instead probes the conformation of the DNA around the modified residue.
- Marcin Jaciuk
- Elżbieta Nowak
- Marcin Nowotny
