depurination

id: GO:0045007
name: depurination
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The disruption of the bond between the sugar in the backbone and the A or G base, causing the base to be removed and leaving a depurinated sugar.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0006285base-excision repair, AP site formation
GO:0006304DNA modification
GO:0009155purine deoxyribonucleotide catabolic process