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Mouse MTH2 protein which prevents mutations caused by 8-oxoguanine nucleotides.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 13 Jun 2003
Cai Jian-Ping, Ishibashi Toru, Takagi Yasumitsu, Hayakawa Hiroshi, Sekiguchi Mutsuo
Abstract excerpt
MutT-related proteins degrade 8-oxo-7,8-dihydrodeoxyguanosine triphosphate (8-oxo-dGTP), a mutagenic substrate for DNA synthesis, in the nucleotide pool, thereby preventing DNA replication errors. During a search of GenBank EST database, we found a new member of MutT-related protein, MTH2, which possesses the 23-amino acid MutT module. The cloned mouse MTH2 (mMTH2) cDNA was expressed in Escherichia coli mutT(-)...
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