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Global deformation facilitates flipping of damaged 8-oxo-guanine and guanine in DNA.
Nucleic acids research - 16 Nov 2016
La Rosa Giuseppe, Zacharias Martin
Abstract excerpt
Oxidation of guanine (Gua) to form 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine (8oxoG) is a frequent mutagenic DNA lesion. DNA repair glycosylases such as the bacterial MutM can effciently recognize and eliminate the 8oxoG damage by base excision. The base excision requires a 8oxoG looping out (flipping) from an intrahelical base paired to an extrahelical state where the damaged base is in the enzyme active site. It is still...
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