title: An endonuclease activity in human polymorphonuclear neutrophils that removes 8-hydroxyguanine residues from DNA+.
abstract: An endonuclease that specifically removes 8-hydroxyguanine (oh8Gua) from DNA has been isolated from Escherichia coli. As the amount of oh8Gua produced in DNA of X-ray-irradiated mice is known to decrease with time after irradiation, an attempt was made to find a similar activity in human polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) using a synthetic dsDNA containing oh8Gua as a substrate. The PMN enzyme was isolated free of other DNases, and found to cleave the substrate DNA simultaneously at 2 sites, the phosphodiester bonds 5' and 3' to oh8Gua, producing free hydroxyl and phosphate groups, respectively. The enzyme showed almost no activity on DNAs containing other kinds of modified base tested or mismatched DNA. Thus human cells also contain an endonuclease that specifically removes oh8Gua residues from DNA.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea.
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ohtsuka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kasai
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nishimura
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D004249:DNA Damage; D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded / Q000378:metabolism*; D043382:DNA-Formamidopyrimidine Glycosylase; D004706:Endodeoxyribonucleases / Q000097:blood* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D006147:Guanine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009699:N-Glycosyl Hydrolases / Q000097:blood / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000201:enzymology*; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; C024829:8-hydroxyguanine; D006147:Guanine; D004706:Endodeoxyribonucleases; D009699:N-Glycosyl Hydrolases; D043382:DNA-Formamidopyrimidine Glycosylase; C468610:DNA-formamidopyrimidine glycosylase, E coli