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SUBMITTER: Mullins EA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5657529 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mullins Elwood A EA Shi Rongxin R Eichman Brandt F BF
Nature chemical biology 20170724 9
Yatakemycin (YTM) is an extraordinarily toxic DNA alkylating agent with potent antimicrobial and antitumor properties and is the most recent addition to the CC-1065 and duocarmycin family of natural products. Though bulky DNA lesions the size of those produced by YTM are normally removed from the genome by the nucleotide-excision repair (NER) pathway, YTM adducts are also a substrate for the bacterial DNA glycosylases AlkD and YtkR2, unexpectedly implicating base-excision repair (BER) in their e ...[more]