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ReviewEnvironmental and molecular mutagenesis2013

DNA glycosylases search for and remove oxidized DNA bases.

Susan S Wallace

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Review in Environmental and molecular mutagenesis, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers.

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68citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

68 citing papers in PubMed, 100 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Sperm DNA Fragmentation: The Concept and Its Use in Assisted Reproduction.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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  3. The Link Between Human Alkyladenine DNA Glycosylase and Cancer Development.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  4. Oxidative Stress and DNA Damage at Telomeres.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2025
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  9. Modified Alkaline Comet Assay to Detect Oxidative DNA Damage.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  11. Artificial targeting of the NEIL1 DNA glycosylase to the mitochondria.Environmental and molecular mutagenesis · 2024
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  15. The 2Ih andMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Susan S WallaceDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
University of Vermont · US

Funding

SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY OF THE BER OXIDATIVE DNA GLYCOSYLASESP01CA098993 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT &ST AGRIC COLLEGE · PI LEE, ANDREA J · 2004 to 2021
$25.9M
Processing of Radiation Damage by Translesion DNA SynthesisR01CA052040 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT &ST AGRIC COLLEGE · PI DOUBLIE, SYLVIE · 1991 to 2017
$4.5M
REPAIR OF DNA INDUCED BY IONIZING RADIATIONR37CA033657 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT &ST AGRIC COLLEGE · PI WALLACE, SUSAN S · 1987 to 2002
$1.3M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA098993NCI NIH HHS R01 CA052040NCI NIH HHS R01 CA52040NCI NIH HHS R37 CA033657NCI NIH HHS R37 CA 33657
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review article presents, an overview of the DNA glycosylases that recognize oxidized DNA bases using the Fpg/Nei family of DNA glycosylases as models for how structure can inform function. For example, even though human NEIL1 and the plant and fungal orthologs lack the zinc finger shown to be required for binding, DNA crystal structures revealed a "zincless finger" with the same properties. Moreover, the "lesion recognition loop" is not involved in lesion recognition, rather, it stabilizes 8-oxoG in the active site pocket. Unlike the other Fpg/Nei family members, Neil3 lacks two of the three void-filling residues that stabilize the DNA duplex and interact with the opposite strand to the damage which may account for its preference for lesions in single-stranded DNA. Also single-molecule approaches show that DNA glycosylases search for their substrates in a sea of undamaged DNA by using a wedge residue that is inserted into the DNA helix to probe for the presence of damage.

Indexed as

AnimalsDNADNA GlycosylasesHumansOxidation-ReductionDNADNA GlycosylasesDNA base damageDNA glycosylaseeukaryotic Neil glycosylasesFpg/Nei family of DNA glycosylasesglycosylase crystal structuresglycosylase searchglycosylase substrate specificityNeil3oxidative DNA damagesingle-molecule studies

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PMID24123395
PMCPMC3997179
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