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Nature Structural Biology  9, 638 - 640 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nsb0902-638

TAGging the target for damage control

Kelley S. Yan & Ming-Ming Zhou

Kelley S. Yan and Ming-Ming Zhou are in the Structural Biology Program, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York 10029, USA. zhoum@inka.mssm.edu

The structure of TAG, a DNA repair enzyme, reveals how evolutionary changes in the sequence of a conserved scaffold may enrich the mechanistic diversity of the DNA HhH glycosylase superfamily through a unique coupling of catalysis to substrate selectivity.

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Uracil in DNA – occurrence, consequences and repair
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Crystal structures of 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase MagIII and the recognition of alkylated bases
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3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase I is an unexpected helix-hairpin-helix superfamily member
Nature Structural Biology Letters (01 Sep 2002)
DNA bending and a flip-out mechanism for base excision by the helix–hairpin–helix DNA glycosylase, Escherichia coli AlkA
The EMBO Journal Article (15 Feb 2000)
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