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Adenine removal activity and bacterial complementation with the human MutY homologue (MUTYH) and Y165C, G382D, P391L and Q324R variants associated with colorectal cancer.
DNA repair - 3 Dec 2009
Kundu Sucharita, Brinkmeyer Megan K, Livingston Alison L, David Sheila S
Abstract excerpt
MUTYH-associated polyposis (MAP) is the only inherited colorectal cancer syndrome that is associated with inherited biallelic mutations in a base excision repair gene. The MUTYH glycosylase plays an important role in preventing mutations associated with 8-oxoguanine (OG) by removing adenine resid...
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