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Structural highlights

Function

MUTT_ECOLI Involved in the GO system responsible for removing an oxidatively damaged form of guanine (7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine) from DNA and the nucleotide pool. 8-oxo-dGTP is inserted opposite dA and dC residues of template DNA with almost equal efficiency thus leading to A.T to G.C transversions. MutT specifically degrades 8-oxo-dGTP to the monophosphate.^{[1] [2]}

Evolutionary Conservation

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

See Also

• 7%2C8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine triphosphatase 3D structures

References

1. ↑ Maki H, Sekiguchi M. MutT protein specifically hydrolyses a potent mutagenic substrate for DNA synthesis. Nature. 1992 Jan 16;355(6357):273-5. PMID:1309939 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/355273a0
2. ↑ Ito R, Hayakawa H, Sekiguchi M, Ishibashi T. Multiple enzyme activities of Escherichia coli MutT protein for sanitization of DNA and RNA precursor pools. Biochemistry. 2005 May 3;44(17):6670-4. PMID:15850400 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bi047550k