Enzymatic capture of an extrahelical thymine in the search for uracil in DNA  

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Parker, Jared B. ; Bianchet, Mario A. ; Krosky, Daniel J. ; Friedman, Joshua I. ; Amzel, L. Mario ; Stivers, James T.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: NATURE (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 449 no. 7161 (Sep. 2007), page 433.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N01.K.2007.09 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The enzyme uracil DNA glycosylase (UNG) excises unwanted uracil bases in the genome using an extrahelical base recognition mechanism. Efficient removal of uracil is essential for prevention of C-to-T transition mutations arising from cytosine deamination, cytotoxic UA pairs arising from incorporation of dUTP in DNA, and for increasing immunoglobulin gene diversity during the acquired immune response. A central event in all of these UNG-mediated processes is the singling out of rare UA or UG base pairs in a background of approximately 109 TA or CG base pairs in the human genome. Here we establish for the human and Escherichia coli enzymes that discrimination of thymine and uracil is initiated by thermally induced opening of TA and UA base pairs and not by active participation of the enzyme. Thus, base-pair dynamics has a critical role in the genome-wide search for uracil, and may be involved in initial damage recognition by other DNA repair glycosylases.

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