Re: Entertaining
Actually, according to the Nobel scientific background sheet,
1) Sancar's early key paper WAS published in Cell (Sancar, A. and W.D. Rupp, A novel repair enzyme: UVRABC excision nuclease of Escherichia coli cuts a DNA strand on both sides of the damaged region. Cell, 1983. 33(1): p. 249-60.)
2) One of Lindahl's two early key papers was published in Nature (Lindahl, T., New class of enzymes acting on damaged DNA. Nature, 1976. 259(5538): p. 64-6.)
3) Modrich's key paper was in Science (61. Lahue, R.S., K.G. Au, and P. Modrich, DNA mismatch correction in a defined system. Science, 1989. 245(4914): p. 160-4)
The Annual Review of Biochemistry articles are likely summing-up review articles written once the systems had been sorted out.
I was interested to see Phil Hanawalt acknowledged in the scientific background document as another important pioneer in understanding DNA repair mechanisms. I met him a few times way back when I was in college, but I was never really that interested in studying single-celled organisms. The scientific background document (and 25 years of advances in understanding cancer) show how DNA repair has turned out to be central to many areas of biological research.