Multifaceted roles for thymine DNA glycosylase in embryonic development and human carcinogenesis

X Xu, DS Watt, C Liu - Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Thymine DNA glycosylase (TDG) is a multifunctional protein that plays important roles in
DNA repair, DNA demethylation, and transcriptional regulation. These diverse functions …

[HTML][HTML] The role of thymine DNA glycosylase in transcription, active DNA demethylation, and cancer

O Onabote, HM Hassan, M Isovic, J Torchia - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Thymine DNA Glycosylase (TDG) is a DNA repair protein that plays an
important role in gene regulation. Recent studies have shown that TDG interacts with …

[HTML][HTML] Thymine DNA glycosylase as a novel target for melanoma

P Mancuso, R Tricarico, V Bhattacharjee, L Cosentino… - Oncogene, 2019 - nature.com
Melanoma is an aggressive neoplasm with increasing incidence that is classified by the NCI
as a recalcitrant cancer, ie, a cancer with poor prognosis, lacking progress in diagnosis and …

Transcriptional regulation of thymine DNA glycosylase (TDG) by the tumor suppressor protein p53

NM da Costa, A Hautefeuille, MP Cros, ME Melendez… - Cell Cycle, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Thymine DNA glycosylase (TDG) belongs to the superfamily of uracil DNA glycosylases
(UDG) and is the first enzyme in the base-excision repair pathway (BER) that removes …

[HTML][HTML] Thymine DNA Glycosylase (TDG) is involved in the pathogenesis of intestinal tumors with reduced APC expression

J Xu, S Cortellino, R Tricarico, WC Chang, G Scher… - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Thymine DNA Glycosylase (TDG) is a base excision repair enzyme that acts as a
thymine and uracil DNA N-glycosylase on G: T and G: U mismatches, thus protecting CpG …

The thymine− DNA glycosylase regulatory domain: Residual structure and DNA binding

C Smet-Nocca, JM Wieruszeski, V Chaar, A Leroy… - Biochemistry, 2008 - ACS Publications
Thymine− DNA glycosylases (TDGs) initiate base excision repair by debasification of the
erroneous thymine or uracil nucleotide in G· T and G· U mispairs which arise at high …

Thymine DNA glycosylase modulates DNA damage response and gene expression by base excision repair‐dependent and independent mechanisms

T Nakamura, K Murakami, H Tada, Y Uehara… - Genes to …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Thymine DNA glycosylase (TDG) is a base excision repair (BER) enzyme, which is
implicated in correction of deamination‐induced DNA mismatches, the DNA demethylation …

The versatile thymine DNA‐glycosylase: a comparative characterization of the human, Drosophila and fission yeast orthologs

U Hardeland, M Bentele, J Jiricny… - Nucleic acids …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Human thymine‐DNA glycosylase (TDG) is well known to excise thymine and uracil from G·
T and G· U mismatches, respectively, and was therefore proposed to play a central role in …

[HTML][HTML] Thymine DNA glycosylase is essential for active DNA demethylation by linked deamination-base excision repair

S Cortellino, J Xu, M Sannai, R Moore, E Caretti… - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
DNA methylation is a major epigenetic mechanism for gene silencing. Whereas
methyltransferases mediate cytosine methylation, it is less clear how unmethylated regions …

[HTML][HTML] CRL4Cdt2 E3 ubiquitin ligase and proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) cooperate to degrade thymine DNA glycosylase in S phase

E Shibata, A Dar, A Dutta - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2014 - ASBMB
Thymine DNA glycosylase (TDG) is an essential enzyme playing multiple roles in base
excision repair, transcription regulation, and DNA demethylation. TDG mediates the …