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ERCC3

ERCC3 (XPB) is a human gene on chromosome 2q14.3 encoding an ATP-dependent 3'-5' DNA helicase subunit of TFIIH, essential for transcription initiation and nucleotide excision repair; mutations cause xeroderma pigmentosum group B, Cockayne syndrome, and trichothiodystrophy.

ERCC4

ERCC4 (XPF, FANCQ) is a human gene on 16p13.12 encoding the catalytic subunit of the ERCC1-XPF structure-specific endonuclease, which makes the 5' incision in nucleotide excision repair and interstrand crosslink repair; mutations cause XP group F, Fanconi anemia group Q, and XFE progeroid syndrome.

ERCC6

ERCC6 (CSB), gene at 10q11.23 encoding a SWI/SNF ATP-dependent chromatin remodeler that initiates transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair; biallelic mutations cause Cockayne syndrome type B, COFS, and UV-sensitive syndrome.

Ercha Shangqing Pills

Ercha Shangqing Wan (儿茶上清丸, Jingmen Shangqing Wan) is a Category 1.1 innovative traditional Chinese medicine pill by Hubei Qijin Pharmaceutical, approved January 2024 (Z20240001) for mild recurrent aphthous ulcers with upper-jiao heat syndrome.

Erchia

Erchia (Erkhia, Ἐρχία) was an Attic deme in the Mesogaia, partly at modern Spata, in the Aegeis tribe; home of Xenophon and Isocrates and known for its mid-fourth-century BC inscribed sacrificial calendar, the Greater Demarchia.

Ercilla

Ercilla is a Chilean name referring to Alonso de Ercilla, the Spanish poet of La Araucana, and to the Santiago publishing house and magazine named after him.

Erciyes Volcanic Complex

Erciyes Volcanic Complex (Erciyes Dağı, Argaeus Mons) is central Anatolia's largest active stratovolcano, 3917 m, with a 14 × 18 km Koç Dağ caldera, Holocene Karagüllü, Perikartin, and Dikkartin tuff-ring eruptions, and Kayseri built on its deposits.

Ercole Baldini

Ercole Baldini (Il Treno di Forlì), 1933–2022, Italian cyclist; Hour Record holder, 1956 Melbourne Olympic road race gold, 1958 Giro d'Italia and world road champion; only Italian with that treble.

Ercole Consalvi

Ercole Consalvi (1757–1824) was an Italian cardinal and statesman, Secretary of State to Pope Pius VII, who negotiated the Concordat of 1801 with Napoleon and recovered most of the Papal States at the Congress of Vienna.

Ercole Gonzaga

Ercole Gonzaga (1505–1563) was an Italian cardinal of the ruling house of Mantua who served as regent of the duchy and president of the Council of Trent.

Ercole Olgeni

Ercole Olgeni (1883-1947), Venetian Italian rower in the coxed pair; with Giovanni Scatturin won Olympic gold at Antwerp 1920 (7:56.0, Italy's first rowing gold) and silver at Paris 1924.

Erdafitinib

Erdafitinib (Balversa) is an oral pan-FGFR kinase inhibitor for metastatic urothelial carcinoma with susceptible FGFR3 alterations after prior therapy including a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor; THOR showed survival benefit over chemotherapy.

Erdal Öz

Erdal Öz (1935–2006) was a Turkish writer, publisher, and author of children's books who founded Can Yayınları, one of Turkey's leading literary publishing houses, in 1981.

Erdal Öz Edebiyat Ödülü

The Erdal Öz Edebiyat Ödülü, or Erdal Öz Literature Award, is an annual Turkish literary prize given since 2008 in memory of writer and publisher Erdal Öz.

Erdem Beyazıt

Erdem Beyazıt, usually spelled Erdem Bayazıt and fully named Adil Erdem Bayazıt, was a Turkish poet and politician of the Mavera generation who died in 2008.

Erdem Kınay

Erdem Kınay is a Turkish composer, arranger, and music producer, born in Istanbul in 1978, known for hits for Demet Akalın and Hande Yener and his Proje albums.

Erdemir

Erdemir, formally Ereğli Demir ve Çelik Fabrikaları T.A.Ş., is Türkiye's first and largest integrated flat steel producer, established by law in 1960 and in production since 1965 at Karadeniz Ereğli on the Black Sea coast.

Erdene Zuu Monastery

Erdene Zuu Monastery (Эрдэнэ Зуу, "Jewel Temple") is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Kharkhorin, Mongolia, founded in 1586 by Abtai Sain Khan on the site of Karakorum.

Erdenes Mongol

Erdenes Mongol (Эрдэнэс Монгол) is Mongolia's state-owned mining holding company, established in 2006 to manage stakes in strategic mines like Oyu Tolgoi and Tavan Tolgoi.

Erdeni Batur

Erdeni Batur, also rendered Batur Khuntaiji, was a Choros Dzungar chief, son of Khara-Khula, who led the Oirat tribes in Dzungaria, convened the 1640 Mongol-Oirat assembly, and is traditionally credited with founding the Dzungar Khanate.

Erdeniin Tobchi

Erdeniin Tobchi (Эрдэнийн товч), fully "Precious Summary of the Origins of the Khans", is a Mongolian chronicle completed in 1662 by the Ordos nobleman Sagang Sechen, covering Mongol history to the mid-seventeenth century.

Erdheim–Chester disease

Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD), a rare clonal non-Langerhans histiocytic neoplasm first described in 1930, causes foamy histiocyte infiltration of bones and organs, with BRAF V600E mutations in 50-60% and MAPK-inhibitor therapy.

Erding

Erding, Upper Bavaria, Germany, on the Sempt river; a 13th-century town whose Altenerding-Klettham row-grave cemetery (about 2,400 graves, 480-720 AD) and Carolingian royal court make it central to early medieval Bavarian archaeology.

Erdington

Erdington is a suburb, ward, and parliamentary constituency of Birmingham, England, about four miles northeast of the city centre, recorded in the Domesday Book and historically tied to the de Erdington family.

Erdong Tang

二冬汤 (Erdong Tang) is a Qing-era classic Chinese medicine formula from Cheng Guopeng's Yixue Xinwu, built on tian dong and mai dong, for upper-wasting diabetes; approved as Erdong Tang granules, a 2024 category-3.1 new drug.

Erdős cardinal

An Erdős cardinal is a large cardinal defined by a partition property, named for Paul Erdős; the most-used case is κ(ω₁), and a Ramsey cardinal is the κ-Erdős cardinal.

Erdős discrepancy problem

The Erdős discrepancy problem, posed by Paul Erdős in the 1930s, asks whether every infinite sequence of 1s and −1s must have arbitrarily large discrepancy along arithmetic progressions.

Erdős number

The Erdős number measures collaborative distance to the prolific Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős (1913–1996): he has number 0, direct coauthors 1, their coauthors 2, and so on.

Erdős–Bacon number

An Erdős–Bacon number is the sum of a person's Erdős number and Bacon number, their collaboration distances from mathematician Paul Erdős and actor Kevin Bacon through coauthored papers and shared film appearances.

Erdős–Faber–Lovász conjecture

A combinatorics conjecture, posed in 1972 by Paul Erdős, Vance Faber, and László Lovász, that edges of any linear hypergraph on n vertices can be colored with n colors.