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Structural highlights

Function

MUG_ECOLI Excises ethenocytosine and uracil, which can arise by alkylation or deamination of cytosine, respectively, from the corresponding mispairs with guanine in ds-DNA. It is capable of hydrolyzing the carbon-nitrogen bond between the sugar-phosphate backbone of the DNA and the mispaired base. The complementary strand guanine functions in substrate recognition. Required for DNA damage lesion repair in stationary-phase cells.^{[1] [2]}

Evolutionary Conservation

Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf.

References

1. ↑ Gallinari P, Jiricny J. A new class of uracil-DNA glycosylases related to human thymine-DNA glycosylase. Nature. 1996 Oct 24;383(6602):735-8. PMID:8878487 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/383735a0
2. ↑ O'Neill RJ, Vorob'eva OV, Shahbakhti H, Zmuda E, Bhagwat AS, Baldwin GS. Mismatch uracil glycosylase from Escherichia coli: a general mismatch or a specific DNA glycosylase? J Biol Chem. 2003 Jun 6;278(23):20526-32. Epub 2003 Mar 31. PMID:12668677 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M210860200