BIO372H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pyrimidine Dimer, Dna Glycosylase, Dna Repair

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Dna undergoes damage spontaneously from hydrolysis and deamination. Hydrolytic dna damage: spontaneous deamination of cytosine, adenine and guanine. Repair system recognizes unnatural bases for repair. Dna mutations arise not only from errors in replication, but also from damage to the dna. Thus introduces a in the opposite strand (rather than g) upon replication. A in the opposite strand will not be recognized as abnormal base in dna. U is recognized as unnatural base in dna. Vertebrate dna frequently contains 5-mc for gene silencing. 3- repair and tolerance of dna damage: direct reversal of dna damage. Uv light irradiation causes formation of pyrimidine dimers (e. g. tt or cc) This dimer is unable to bind to aa on the second strand. Photoreactivation reverses the formation of pyrimidine dimers by dna photolyase. Upon exposure to light, dna photolyase restores the two pyrimidine residues. The restoration of the pyrimidine residues allows for bonding between the aa and.

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