Cleaver James E
Auerbaok Melanoma Laboratory, UCSF Cancer Center, Room N431, University of California, PO Box 0808, San Francisco, CA 94143-0808, USA.
DNA Repair (Amst). 2003 Nov 21;2(11):1273-4. doi: 10.1016/s1568-7864(03)00136-8.
Nucleotide excision repair was first reported in 1964 by Setlow and Carrier and by Boyce and Howard-Flanders. These two reports clearly defined the existence in bacteria of a repair process that physically removed damaged sites, pyrimidine dimers, from the DNA in the form of acid-soluble fragments. These reports were the starting point for subsequent development of the whole field of DNA excision point.
