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SB = sidechain MHC - backbone peptide
The ice pack is forming later and retreating earlier—and it's having a serious impact on the abundance of krill, the backbone of the Antarctic food chain.
This generates the necessary 3' hydroxyl group for DNA polymerases (pol β, δ or ε, in eukaryotes) to insert the correct nucleotide in later steps in the base excision repair pathway (BER-pathway) [ 7 8 ] . Recent crystal structures of huAPE1 complexed with DNA containing an abasic site [ 9 10 11 ] , combined with sequence analysis and site-directed mutagenesis, have defined the residues that participate in metal ion based cleavage of the phosphate backbone of the DNA [ 12 13 14 15 16 17 ] .
Both OCP systems could be combined in the same tube because the seven 5' bases of P2 are complementary to the unique backbone region of the OCP.
The subsequent "Leuchter Report" became the backbone of Zundel's defense (he lost anyway) and of the burgeoning revisionist movement led by David Irving.