September 1, 2000
Author(s)
T. K. Hazra, T. Izumi, R Venkataraman, Y W. Kow, M. Dizdaroglu, Somenath Mitra
8-oxoguanine (G*), induced by reactive oxygen species, is mutagenic because it mispairs with A. The major G*-DNA glycosylase (OGG), namely, OGG1 in eukaryotes, or MutM in Escherichia coli, excises G* when paired in DNA with C, G and T, but not A