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SUBMITTER: Smith MR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6451102 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Smith Mallory R MR Shock David D DD Beard William A WA Greenberg Marc M MM Freudenthal Bret D BD Wilson Samuel H SH
Nucleic acids research 20190401 6
4,6-Diamino-5-formamidopyrimidine (Fapy•dG) is an abundant form of oxidative DNA damage that is mutagenic and contributes to the pathogenesis of human disease. When Fapy•dG is in its nucleotide triphosphate form, Fapy•dGTP, it is inefficiently cleansed from the nucleotide pool by the responsible enzyme in Escherichia coli MutT and its mammalian homolog MTH1. Therefore, under oxidative stress conditions, Fapy•dGTP could become a pro-mutagenic substrate for insertion into the genome by DNA polymer ...[more]