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SUBMITTER: Bian K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6885016 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bian Ke K Chen Fangyi F Humulock Zachary T ZT Tang Qi Q Tang Qi Q Li Deyu D
Chemical research in toxicology 20170926 10
Disturbed metabolism of copper ions can cause diseases such as Wilson's disease (WD). In this work, we investigated the inhibitory effect of Cu(II) ion in vitro on the AlkB family DNA repair enzymes, which are members of the Fe(II)/alpha-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase and include human ALKBH2, ALKBH3, and E. coli AlkB proteins. None of the three proteins was significantly inhibited under normal cellular copper concentrations. However, under WD related condition, we observed that the activit ...[more]