Generation, Biological Consequences and Repair Mechanisms of Cytosine Deamination in DNA

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  • YONEKURA Shin-Ichiro
    Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
  • NAKAMURA Nobuya
    Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
  • YONEI Shuji
    Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
  • ZHANG-AKIYAMA Qiu-Mei
    Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University

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Base moieties in DNA are spontaneously threatened by naturally occurring chemical reactions such as deamination, hydrolysis and oxidation. These DNA modifications have been considered to be major causes of cell death, mutations and cancer induction in organisms. Organisms have developed the DNA base excision repair pathway as a defense mechanism to protect them from these threats. DNA glycosylases, the key enzyme in the base excision repair pathway, are highly conserved in evolution. Uracil constantly occurs in DNA. Uracil in DNA arises by spontaneous deamination of cytosine to generate pro-mutagenic U:G mispairs. Uracil in DNA is also produced by the incorporation of dUMP during DNA replication. Uracil-DNA glycosylase (UNG) acts as a major repair enzyme that protects DNA from the deleterious consequences of uracil. The first UNG activity was discovered in E. coli in 1974. This was also the first discovery of base excision repair. The sequence encoded by the ung gene demonstrates that the E. coli UNG is highly conserved in viruses, bacteria, archaea, yeast, mice and humans. In this review, we will focus on central and recent findings on the generation, biological consequences and repair mechanisms of uracil in DNA and on the biological significance of uracil-DNA glycosylase.

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