DNA damage repair proteins --- tutorials

This file will contain pointers to some existing tutorials on DNA damage and repair. It is not intended to be a comprehensive list, but a selection of some of the most readable and most current tutorials. Pointers to other or better tutorials are welcomed.

General tutorials

What is DNA repair?

A very brief tutorial with some nice pictures from National Institutes of Health.

Mutation, Mutagens, and DNA Repair

by Beth A. Montelone, Ph. D., Division of Biology, Kansas State University. Provides a breif intro to DNA damage and repair for first-year biology grad students.

DNA Repair Lectures

A pair of lectures by Joel Huberman from Fall 1999 offering of RPN 530 at Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. This tutorial provides a fairly detailed and current overview of DNA repair mechanisms, and has citations to more detailed survey articles.

DNA Repair lecture notes

Dr. Laurie Achenbach, Department of Microbiology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Very brief lecture notes.

DNA repair mechanisms

A one-page summary of DNA repair.

Research: Delving into the Choreography of DNA Repair

Article from The Scientist dropping a few names and giving a brief, lay overview of some selected research.

DNA Repair and Mutagenesis

by Errol C. Friedberg, Graham C. Walker, Wolfram Siede. (American Society for Microbiology, 1995; ISBN: 1555810888) This 700-page book is frequently mentioned as the best text on DNA repair.

Trends in Biochemical Sciences, issue of October, 1995 (Volume 20, pp. 381-440).

Has a number of short article summarizing the state of the art in 1995.

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