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Repair of 8-oxoG:A mismatches by the MUTYH glycosylase: Mechanism, metals and medicine.
Free radical biology & medicine - 1 Jun 2017
Banda Douglas M, Nuñez Nicole N, Burnside Michael A, Bradshaw Katie M, David Sheila S
Abstract excerpt
Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) may infringe on the passing of pristine genetic information by inducing DNA inter- and intra-strand crosslinks, protein-DNA crosslinks, and chemical alterations to the sugar or base moieties of DNA. 8-Oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoG) is one of the most prevalent DNA lesions formed by RONS and is repaired through the base excision repair (BER) pathway involving the DNA...
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