title: DNA repair in mammalian cells: Base excision repair: the long and short of it.
abstract: Base excision repair (BER) is the primary DNA repair pathway that corrects base lesions that arise due to oxidative, alkylation, deamination, and depurinatiation/depyrimidination damage. BER facilitates the repair of damaged DNA via two general pathways - short-patch and long-patch. The shortpatch BER pathway leads to a repair tract of a single nucleotide. Alternatively, the long-patch BER pathway produces a repair tract of at least two nucleotides. The BER pathway is initiated by one of many DNA glycosylases, which recognize and catalyze the removal of damaged bases. The completion of the BER pathway is accomplished by the coordinated action of at least three additional enzymes. These downstream enzymes carry out strand incision, gap-filling and ligation. The high degree of BER conservation between E. coli and mammals has lead to advances in our understanding of mammalian BER. This review will provide a general overview of the mammalian BER pathway. (Part of a Multi-author Review).
authors.affiliation: Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience, Rikshospitalet HF, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Robertson
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Klungland
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rognes
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Leiros
mesh_terms: D000478:Alkylation; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D053904:DNA Breaks, Single-Stranded; D004249:DNA Damage / Q000502:physiology*; D045647:DNA Glycosylases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004260:DNA Repair / Q000502:physiology*; D045643:DNA Repair Enzymes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D011487:Protein Conformation
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D045647:DNA Glycosylases; D045643:DNA Repair Enzymes