Article
Rat 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase: substrate specificity, kinetics and cleavagemechanism at an apurinic site.
Nucleic acids research - 15 Nov 1998
Prieto Alamo M J, Jurado J, Francastel E, Laval F
Abstract excerpt
Reactive oxygen species produce different lesions in DNA. Among them, 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG) is one of the major oxidative products implicated in mutagenesis. This lesion is removed from damaged DNA by base excision repair, and genes coding for 8-oxoG-DNA glycosylases have been isolate...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Catalytic Domain
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Glycosylases
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Complementary
- DNA-Formamidopyrimidine Glycosylase
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Humans
- Kinetics
- Mutation
- N-Glycosyl Hydrolases
- Oligodeoxyribonucleotides
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Recombinant Proteins
