transcription-coupled nucleotide-excision repair

Term ID

GO:0006283

Synonyms

• TC-NER
• TCR
• transcription-coupled NER
• transcription-coupled repair

Definition

The nucleotide-excision repair process that carries out preferential repair of DNA lesions on the actively transcribed strand of the DNA duplex. In addition, the transcription-coupled nucleotide-excision repair pathway is required for the recognition and repair of a small subset of lesions that are not recognized by the global genome nucleotide excision repair pathway. (2)

References

Ontology

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