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Fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe) cells defective in the MutY-homologous glycosylase activity have a mutator phenotype and are sensitive to hydrogen peroxide.
Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG - 1 Oct 2001
Chang D Y, Gu Y, Lu A L
Abstract excerpt
The modified base 7,8-dihydro-8-oxo-guanine (8-oxoG) is one of the most stable deleterious products of oxidative DNA damage because it mispairs with adenine during DNA replication. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the MutY homolog (SpMYH) is responsible for removing misincorporated adenines from A/8-oxoG or A/G mismatches and thus preventing G:C to T:A mutations. In order to study the functional...
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