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The enigmatic thymine DNA glycosylase

Cortázar, Daniel and Kunz, Christophe and Saito, Yusuke and Steinacher, Roland and Schär, Primo. (2007) The enigmatic thymine DNA glycosylase. DNA repair, 6 (4). pp. 489-504.

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Abstract

When it was first isolated from extracts of HeLa cells in Josef Jiricny's laboratory, the thymine DNA glycosylase (TDG) attracted attention because of its ability to remove thymine, i.e. a normal DNA base, from G.T mispairs. This implicated a function of DNA base excision repair in the restoration of G.C base pairs following the deamination of a 5-methylcytosine. TDG turned out to be the founding member of a newly emerging family of mismatch-directed uracil-DNA glycosylases, the MUG proteins, that act on a comparably broad spectrum of base lesion including G.U as the common, most efficiently processed substrate. However, because of its apparent catalytic inefficiency, some have considered TDG a poor DNA repair enzyme without an important biological function. Others have reported 5-meC DNA glycosylase activity to be associated with TDG, thrusting the enzyme into limelight as a possible DNA demethylase. Yet others have found the glycosylase to interact with transcription factors, implicating a function in gene regulation, which appears to be critically important in developmental processes. This article reviews all these developments in view of possible biological functions of this multifaceted DNA glycosylase.
Faculties and Departments:03 Faculty of Medicine > Departement Biomedizin > Division of Biochemistry and Genetics > Molecular Genetics (Schär)
UniBasel Contributors:Schär, Primo Leo and Kunz, Christophe
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:1568-7864
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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