The AlkB family of Fe (II)/α-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases: repairing nucleic acid alkylation damage and beyond

BI Fedeles, V Singh, JC Delaney, D Li… - Journal of Biological …, 2015 - ASBMB
The AlkB family of Fe (II)-and α-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases is a class of
ubiquitous direct reversal DNA repair enzymes that remove alkyl adducts from nucleobases …

C H Bond Activation in Transition Metal Species from a Computational Perspective

D Balcells, E Clot, O Eisenstein - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
Alkanes constitute the cheapest and most abundant feedstock for organic chemicals.
However, the redistribution of CsC and CsH bonds in hydrocarbons into more sophisticated …

[HTML][HTML] Structural insight into substrate preference for TET-mediated oxidation

L Hu, J Lu, J Cheng, Q Rao, Z Li, H Hou, Z Lou… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
DNA methylation is an important epigenetic modification,,. Ten-eleven translocation (TET)
proteins are involved in DNA demethylation through iteratively oxidizing 5-methylcytosine …

Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics modeling of enzymatic processes: Caveats and breakthroughs

MG Quesne, T Borowski… - Chemistry–A European …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Nature has developed large groups of enzymatic catalysts with the aim to transfer substrates
into useful products, which enables biosystems to perform all their natural functions. As …

TET family proteins: oxidation activity, interacting molecules, and functions in diseases

X Lu, BS Zhao, C He - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
DNA modification is one of the most widely studied epigenetic modifications in high
eukaryotic systems. Modified DNA bases impact gene regulation beyond the primary DNA …

Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics study on the oxygen binding and substrate hydroxylation step in AlkB repair enzymes

MG Quesne, R Latifi… - … A European Journal, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
AlkB repair enzymes are important nonheme iron enzymes that catalyse the demethylation
of alkylated DNA bases in humans, which is a vital reaction in the body that heals externally …

Ascorbic Acid Reprograms Epigenome and Epitranscriptome by Reducing Fe (III) in the Catalytic Cycle of Dioxygenases

W He, X Yin, C Xu, X Liu, Y Huang, C Yang… - ACS Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ascorbic acid (ASC) has been reported to stimulate DNA iterative oxidase ten-eleven
translocation (TET) enzymes, Jumonji C-domain-containing histone demethylases, and …

Catalytic mechanism of human ten-eleven translocation-2 (tet2) enzyme: Effects of conformational changes, electric field, and mutations

SO Waheed, SS Chaturvedi… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Ten-eleven translocation (TET) family of enzymes are non-heme Fe (II)-and 2-oxoglutarate
(2OG)-dependent oxygenases that perform oxidation of the methyl group of the 5 …

Role of structural dynamics in selectivity and mechanism of non-heme Fe (II) and 2-oxoglutarate-dependent oxygenases involved in DNA repair

SO Waheed, R Ramanan, SS Chaturvedi… - ACS Central …, 2020 - ACS Publications
AlkB and its human homologue AlkBH2 are Fe (II)-and 2-oxoglutarate (2OG)-dependent
oxygenases that repair alkylated DNA bases occurring as a consequence of reactions with …

Nucleic acid oxidation in DNA damage repair and epigenetics

G Zheng, Y Fu, C He - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Methylation is a widely occurring chemical modification in nucleic acids and proteins.
Methylating agents, either extracellular or intracellular, can attack vulnerable sites in DNA …