Association of Dnmt3a and thymine DNA glycosylase links DNA methylation with base-excision repair
While methylcytosines serve as the fifth base encoding epigenetic information, they are also a dangerous endogenous mutagen due to their intrinsic instability. Methylcytosine undergoes spontaneous deamination, at a rate much higher than cytosine, to generate thymine. In mammals, two repair enzymes,...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1802599/ |