title: Oxidative base damage to DNA: specificity of base excision repair enzymes.
abstract: Base excision repair (BER) is likely to be the main mechanism involved in the enzymatic restoration of oxidative base lesions within the DNA of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Emphasis was placed in early studies on the determination of the ability of several bacterial DNA N-glycosylases, including Escherichia coli endonuclease III (endo III) and formamidopyrimidine DNA N-glycosylase (Fpg), to recognize and excise several oxidized pyrimidine and purine bases. More recently, the availability of related DNA repair enzymes from yeast and human has provided new insights into the enzymatic removal of several.OH-mediated modified DNA bases. However, it should be noted that most of the earlier studies have involved globally modified DNA as the substrates. This explains, at least partly, why there is a paucity of accurate kinetic data on the excision rate of most of the modified bases. Interestingly, several oxidized pyrimidine and purine nucleosides have been recently inserted into defined sequence oligonucleotides. The use of the latter substrates, together with overexpressed DNA N-glycosylases, allows detailed studies on the efficiency of the enzymatic release of the modified bases. This was facilitated by the development of accurate chromatographic and mass spectrometric methods aimed at measuring oxidized bases and nucleosides. As one of the main conclusions, it appears that the specificity of both endo III and Fpg proteins is much broader than expected a few years ago.
authors.affiliation: Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée, SCIB/Laboratoire "Lésions des Acides Nucléiques", CEA/Grenoble, 17 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble, France. cadet@drfmc.ceng.cea.fr
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cadet
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Bourdat
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: D'Ham
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Duarte
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gasparutto
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Romieu
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Ravanat
mesh_terms: D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D004249:DNA Damage / Q000235:genetics*; D004260:DNA Repair; D043382:DNA-Formamidopyrimidine Glycosylase; D043224:Deoxyribonuclease (Pyrimidine Dimer); D004706:Endodeoxyribonucleases / Q000378:metabolism; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D006801:Humans; D009699:N-Glycosyl Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism; D018384:Oxidative Stress
chemical_list: D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D004247:DNA; D004706:Endodeoxyribonucleases; D043224:Deoxyribonuclease (Pyrimidine Dimer); C106403:NTH protein, E coli; D009699:N-Glycosyl Hydrolases; D043382:DNA-Formamidopyrimidine Glycosylase; C468610:DNA-formamidopyrimidine glycosylase, E coli