The alpha/beta fold uracil DNA glycosylases: a common origin with diverse fates |
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Authors: | L Aravind Eugene V Koonin |
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Institution: | (1) National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA |
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Abstract: | Background Uracil DNA glycosylases (UDGs) are major repair enzymes that protect DNA from mutational damage caused by uracil incorporated as a result of a polymerase error or deamination of cytosine. Four distinct families of UDGs have been identified, which show very limited sequence similarity to each other, although two of them have been shown to possess the same structural fold. The structural and evolutionary relationships between the rest of the UDGs remain uncertain. |
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