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    Structure of a DNA base-excision product resembling a cisplatin inter-strand adduct

    Barrett, T.E. and Savva, Renos and Barlow, T. and Brown, T. and Jiricny, J. and Pearl, L.H. (1998) Structure of a DNA base-excision product resembling a cisplatin inter-strand adduct. Nature Structural Biology 5 (8), pp. 697-701. ISSN 1072-8368.

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    Abstract

    Base-excision of a self-complementary oligonucleotide with central G:T mismatches by the G:T/U-specific mismatch DNA glycosylase (MUG), generates an unusual DNA structure which is remarkably similar in conformation to an interstrand DNA adduct of the anti-tumor drug cis -diamminedichloroplatinum. The abasic sugars generated by excision of the mismatched thymines are extruded from the double-helix, and the 'widowed' deoxyguanosines rotate so that their N7 and O6 groups protrude into the minor groove of the duplex and restack in an interleaved intercalative geometry, generating a kink in the helix axis.

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Natural Sciences
    Research Centres and Institutes: Innovation Management Research, Birkbeck Centre for
    Depositing User: Sarah Hall
    Date Deposited: 14 May 2019 11:27
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:51
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27524

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