Meet the editor

Dr. Payam Behzadi was born in 1973 in Tehran-Iran. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology, College of Basic Sciences, Shahr-e-Qods Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran. He obtained an MSc in Microbiology in 2004 and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology in 2016. He has authored and edited more than twenty chapters and academic books and more than seventy original and review articles. His scientific research

interests include urinary tract infections, antibiotics, bioinformatics, genetics, gene profiling, molecular biology, and cellular and molecular immunology. Dr. Behzadi trains as an ice skater in his free time.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

Origin of DNA Repair in the RNA World *by Harris Bernstein and Carol Bernstein*

Nano-Studies of DNA Repair Mechanisms *by Jin-Ho Lee and Michael Hausmann*

Bioflavonoids and Natural Compounds

Role of NHEJ and Alternative Pathways

*and Sandeep Kumar Shukla*

*Mahnoor Tariq and Abdul Hannan*

**Preface XI**

Biochemistry and Bioinformatics **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

DNA Damage-Repair Mechanisms **19**

**Chapter 2 21**

**Chapter 3 43**

**Chapter 4 75**

**Chapter 5 99**

**Chapter 6 121**

Super-Resolution Radiation Biology: From Bio-Dosimetry towards

DNA Damage and Repair Mechanisms Triggered by Exposure to

Recent Perspectives in Radiation-Mediated DNA Damage and Repair:

Interstrand Crosslink Repair: New Horizons of DNA Damage Repair

*by Amna Aqeel, Javaria Zafar, Naureen Ehsan, Qurat-Ul-Ain,* 

*by Donna Goodenow, Kiran Lalwani and Christine Richardson*

*by Ajay Kumar Sharma, Priyanka Shaw, Aman Kalonia, M.H. Yashavarddhan, Pankaj Chaudhary, Arpana Vibhuti*

Where Quantum Biochemistry Meets Structural Bioinformatics: Excited Conformationally-Tautomeric States of the Classical A·T DNA Base Pair *by Ol'ha O. Brovarets', Kostiantyn S. Tsiupa and Dmytro M. Hovorun*
