Cleavage of the damaged purine

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R-HSA-110331
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Pathway
Species
Homo sapiens
Compartment
nucleoplasm
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Cleavage of the damaged purine
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Damaged purines are cleaved from the sugar-phosphate backbone by purine-specific glycosylases (Saparbaev and Laval 1994, Lindahl and Wood 1999).

Literature References
PubMed ID Title Journal Year
10583946 Quality control by DNA repair

Lindahl, T, Wood, RD

Science 1999
8016081 Excision of hypoxanthine from DNA containing dIMP residues by the Escherichia coli, yeast, rat, and human alkylpurine DNA glycosylases

Laval, J, Saparbaev, M

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 1994
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Event Information
Go Biological Process
depurination (0045007)
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Cleavage of the damaged purine (Xenopus tropicalis)
Authored
Matthews, L  (2004-02-03)
Reviewed
Borowiec, JA  (2014-12-22)
Created
Matthews, L  (2004-01-29)
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