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Photo-activated repair

A mechanism for repair of DNA by reduction of thymine dimers by DNA photolyase; contrasted with dark repair, an ATP-dependent process that involves excision of the dimers, resynthesis of the sequence by a polymerase and rejoining of the ends by a ligase.

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