DNA-deoxyinosine glycosylase

DNA-deoxyinosine glycosylase
Identifiers
EC number 3.2.2.15
CAS number 68247-62-1
Databases
IntEnz IntEnz view
BRENDA BRENDA entry
ExPASy NiceZyme view
KEGG KEGG entry
MetaCyc metabolic pathway
PRIAM profile
PDB structures RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum

DNA-deoxyinosine glycosylase (EC 3.2.2.15, DNA(hypoxanthine) glycohydrolase, deoxyribonucleic acid glycosylase, hypoxanthine-DNA glycosylase) is an enzyme with systematic name DNA-deoxyinosine deoxyribohydrolase.[1] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

Hydrolyses DNA and polynucleotides, releasing free hypoxanthine

References

  1. Karran, P. and Lindahl, T. (1978). "Enzymatic excision of free hypoxanthine from polydeoxynucleotides and DNA containing deoxyinosine monophosphate residues". J. Biol. Chem. 253: 5877–5879. PMID 98523.

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