8dw4

Structural highlights

Function

MUTY_GEOSE Base excision repair (BER) glycosylase that initiates repair of A:oxoG to C:G by removing the inappropriately paired adenine base from the DNA backbone, generating an abasic site product (PubMed:25995449) (PubMed:14961129). 8-oxoguanine (oxoG) is a genotoxic DNA lesion resulting from oxidation of guanine; this residue is misread by replicative DNA polymerases, that insert adenine instead of cytosine opposite the oxidized damaged base. Shows a powerful dicrimination of A versus C, since it does not cleave cytosine in oxoG:C pairs (PubMed:25995449). May also be able to remove adenine from A:G mispairs, although this activity may not be physiologically relevant (PubMed:14961129).^{[1] [2]}

See Also

• DNA glycosylase 3D structures

References

1. ↑ Wang L, Lee SJ, Verdine G. Structural Basis for Avoidance of Promutagenic DNA Repair by MutY Adenine DNA Glycosylase. J Biol Chem. 2015 May 20. pii: jbc.M115.657866. PMID:25995449 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M115.657866
2. ↑ Fromme JC, Banerjee A, Huang SJ, Verdine GL. Structural basis for removal of adenine mispaired with 8-oxoguanine by MutY adenine DNA glycosylase. Nature. 2004 Feb 12;427(6975):652-6. PMID:14961129 doi:10.1038/nature02306