title: Alternative excision repair pathways.
abstract: Alternative excision repair (AER) is a category of excision repair initiated by a single nick, made by an endonuclease, near the site of DNA damage, and followed by excision of the damaged DNA, repair synthesis, and ligation. The ultraviolet (UV) damage endonuclease in fungi and bacteria introduces a nick immediately 5' to various types of UV damage and initiates its excision repair that is independent of nucleotide excision repair (NER). Endo IV-type apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonucleases from Escherichia coli and yeast and human Exo III-type AP endonuclease APEX1 introduce a nick directly and immediately 5' to various types of oxidative base damage besides the AP site, initiating excision repair. Another endonuclease, endonuclease V from bacteria to humans, binds deaminated bases and cleaves the phosphodiester bond located 1 nucleotide 3' of the base, leading to excision repair. A single-strand break in DNA is one of the most frequent types of DNA damage within cells and is repaired efficiently. AER makes use of such repair capability of single-strand breaks, removes DNA damage, and has an important role in complementing BER and NER.
authors: Division of Dynamic Proteome, Institute of Development, Aging, and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575, Japan. ayasui@idac.tohoku.ac.jp
authors: Akira
authors: A
authors: Yasui
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D053904:DNA Breaks, Single-Stranded; D004249:DNA Damage; D004260:DNA Repair / Q000502:physiology*; D045643:DNA Repair Enzymes / Q000378:metabolism*; D004720:Endonucleases / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D013045:Species Specificity; D015003:Yeasts
chemical_list: D004720:Endonucleases; D045643:DNA Repair Enzymes
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