Oxidative nucleotide damage: consequences and prevention.
8-Oxoguanine (8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine) is produced in DNA, as well as in nucleotide pools of cells, by reactive oxygen species normally formed during cellular metabolic processes. 8-Oxoguanine nucleotide can pair with cytosine and adenine nucleotides with an almost equal efficiency, then transversion mutation ensues. MutT protein of Escherichia coli and related mammalian protein MTH1 specifically degrade 8-oxo-dGTP to 8-oxo-dGMP, thereby preventing misincorporation of 8-oxoguanine into DNA. The bacterial and mammalian enzymes are close in their size and share a highly conserved region consisting of 23 residues with 14 identical amino acids. Following saturation mutagenesis of this region, most of these residues proved to be essential to exert 8-oxo-dGTPase activity. Gene targeting was done to establish MTH1-deficient cell lines and mice for study. When examined 18 months after birth, a greater number of tumors were formed in the lungs, livers, and stomachs of MTH1(-/-) mice, as compared with findings in wild-type mice. These proteins protect genetic information from untoward effects of threats of endogenous oxygen.[1]References
- Oxidative nucleotide damage: consequences and prevention. Sekiguchi, M., Tsuzuki, T. Oncogene (2002) [Pubmed]
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