Excision of 5-hydroxymethyluracil and 5-carboxylcytosine by the thymine DNA glycosylase domain: its structural basis and implications for active DNA demethylation

H Hashimoto, S Hong, AS Bhagwat… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The mammalian thymine DNA glycosylase (TDG) is implicated in active DNA demethylation
via the base excision repair pathway. TDG excises the mismatched base from G: X …

Structural basis of damage recognition by thymine DNA glycosylase: Key roles for N-terminal residues

CT Coey, SS Malik, LS Pidugu, KM Varney… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Thymine DNA Glycosylase (TDG) is a base excision repair enzyme functioning in
DNA repair and epigenetic regulation. TDG removes thymine from mutagenic G· T mispairs …

Structural basis for excision of 5-formylcytosine by thymine DNA glycosylase

LS Pidugu, JW Flowers, CT Coey, E Pozharski… - Biochemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
Thymine DNA glycosylase (TDG) is a base excision repair enzyme with key functions in
epigenetic regulation. Performing a critical step in a pathway for active DNA demethylation …

Lesion processing by a repair enzyme is severely curtailed by residues needed to prevent aberrant activity on undamaged DNA

A Maiti, MS Noon, AD MacKerell Jr… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
DNA base excision repair is essential for maintaining genomic integrity and for active DNA
demethylation, a central element of epigenetic regulation. A key player is thymine DNA …

[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 …

Thymine DNA glycosylase can rapidly excise 5-formylcytosine and 5-carboxylcytosine: potential implications for active demethylation of CpG sites

A Maiti, AC Drohat - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2011 - ASBMB
Thymine DNA glycosylase (TDG) excises T from G· T mispairs and is thought to initiate base
excision repair (BER) of deaminated 5-methylcytosine (mC). Recent studies show that TDG …

Association of Dnmt3a and thymine DNA glycosylase links DNA methylation with base-excision repair

YQ Li, PZ Zhou, XD Zheng, CP Walsh… - Nucleic acids …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
While methylcytosines serve as the fifth base encoding epigenetic information, they are also
a dangerous endogenous mutagen due to their intrinsic instability. Methylcytosine …

Thymine DNA glycosylase specifically recognizes 5-carboxylcytosine-modified DNA

L Zhang, X Lu, J Lu, H Liang, Q Dai, GL Xu… - Nature chemical …, 2012 - nature.com
Human thymine DNA glycosylase (hTDG) efficiently excises 5-carboxylcytosine (5caC), a
key oxidation product of 5-methylcytosine in genomic DNA, in a recently discovered cytosine …

Excision of thymine and 5-hydroxymethyluracil by the MBD4 DNA glycosylase domain: structural basis and implications for active DNA demethylation

H Hashimoto, X Zhang, X Cheng - Nucleic acids research, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The mammalian DNA glycosylase—methyl-CpG binding domain protein 4 (MBD4)—is
involved in active DNA demethylation via the base excision repair pathway. MBD4 contains …

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 …