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Structure of the base-excision repair enzyme uracil-DNA glycosylase. The uracil residue is shown in yellow. In molecular biology, the protein family, Uracil-DNA glycosylase (UDG) is an enzyme that reverts mutations in DNA. The most common mutation is the deamination of cytosine to uracil. UDG repairs these mutations.
MUTYH (mutY DNA glycosylase) is a human gene that encodes a DNA glycosylase, MUTYH glycosylase. It is involved in oxidative DNA damage repair and is part of the base excision repair pathway. The enzyme excises adenine bases from the DNA backbone at sites where adenine is inappropriately paired with guanine , cytosine , or 8-oxo-7,8 ...
Uracil DNA glycosylase flips a uracil residue out of the duplex, shown in yellow. DNA glycosylases are responsible for initial recognition of the lesion. They flip the damaged base out of the double helix, as pictured, and cleave the N-glycosidic bond of the damaged base, leaving an AP site. There are two categories of glycosylases ...
5hmU can be cleaved by TDG, single-strand-selective monofunctional uracil-DNA glycosylase 1 , Nei-Like DNA Glycosylase 1 , or methyl-CpG binding protein 4 . AP sites and T:G mismatches are then repaired by base excision repair (BER) enzymes to yield cytosine (Cyt). TET1 is a key enzyme involved in demethylating 5mCpG.
OGG1 is a bifunctional glycosylase, as it is able to both cleave the glycosidic bond of the mutagenic lesion and cause a strand break in the DNA backbone. Alternative splicing of the C-terminal region of this gene classifies splice variants into two major groups, type 1 and type 2, depending on the last exon of the sequence.
When 8 DNA repair genes were evaluated in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tumors, [9] 42% were hypermethylated in the NEIL1 promoter region. This was the most frequent DNA repair deficiency found among the 8 DNA repair genes tested. NEIL1 was also one of six DNA repair genes found to be hypermethylated in their promoter regions in colorectal ...
Alkyladenine DNA glycosylase is a specific type of DNA glycosylase. This subfamily of monofunctional glycosylases is involved in the recognition of a variety of base lesions, including alkylated and deaminated purines, and initiating their repair via the base excision repair pathway. [ 7 ]
Single-strand selective monofunctional uracil DNA glycosylase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the SMUG1 gene. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] SMUG1 is a glycosylase that removes uracil from single- and double-stranded DNA in nuclear chromatin, thus contributing to base excision repair .