田原 正一
Redox Regulation Research Group, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology
田口 隆彦
Department of Gene Regulation and Protein Function, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology
金子 孝夫
Redox Regulation Research Group, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology
馬場 直道
岡山大学
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Oxidative DNA damage is generated in every tissue in the body, and is mainly excised by glycosylases. However, endonucleases and exonucleases are suggested as being present in tissues, since oxidized nucleosides such as thymidine glycol and 8-Oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine are detected in urine. For this reason, we studied repair enzymes induced in regenerating rat liver, and detected an enzyme cleaves phosphodiester bonds on the 5'side of 8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine nucleotides in DNA. The coexistence of this enzyme and phosphodiesterase II results in the release of 8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine monophosphate from calf thymus DNA enriched with 8-oxoguanine by γ-ray irradiation. This enzyme is found in regenerating rat liver, but not in normal rat liver. The enzyme may have a specific connection to DNA replication.
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oxidative DNA damage
repair
endonuclease
8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine
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