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==HUMAN URACIL-DNA GLYCOSYLASE==
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== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[1akz]] is a 1 chain structure with sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens Homo sapiens]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1AKZ OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-docs/fgij/fg.htm?mol=1AKZ FirstGlance]. <br>
</td></tr><tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-docs/fgij/fg.htm?mol=1akz FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=1akz OCA], [http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=1akz RCSB], [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/1akz PDBsum]</span></td></tr>
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== Disease ==
[[http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/UNG_HUMAN UNG_HUMAN]] Defects in UNG are a cause of immunodeficiency with hyper-IgM type 5 (HIGM5) [MIM:[http://omim.org/entry/608106 608106]]. A rare immunodeficiency syndrome characterized by normal or elevated serum IgM levels with absence of IgG, IgA, and IgE. It results in a profound susceptibility to bacterial infections.<ref>PMID:12958596</ref> <ref>PMID:15967827</ref>  
== Function ==
[[http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/UNG_HUMAN UNG_HUMAN]] Excises uracil residues from the DNA which can arise as a result of misincorporation of dUMP residues by DNA polymerase or due to deamination of cytosine. 
== Evolutionary Conservation ==
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
Three high-resolution crystal structures of DNA complexes with wild-type and mutant human uracil-DNA glycosylase (UDG), coupled kinetic characterizations and comparisons with the refined unbound UDG structure help resolve fundamental issues in the initiation of DNA base excision repair (BER): damage detection, nucleotide flipping versus extrahelical nucleotide capture, avoidance of apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) site toxicity and coupling of damage-specific and damage-general BER steps. Structural and kinetic results suggest that UDG binds, kinks and compresses the DNA backbone with a 'Ser-Pro pinch' and scans the minor groove for damage. Concerted shifts in UDG simultaneously form the catalytically competent active site and induce further compression and kinking of the double-stranded DNA backbone only at uracil and AP sites, where these nucleotides can flip at the phosphate-sugar junction into a complementary specificity pocket. Unexpectedly, UDG binds to AP sites more tightly and more rapidly than to uracil-containing DNA, and thus may protect cells sterically from AP site toxicity. Furthermore, AP-endonuclease, which catalyzes the first damage-general step of BER, enhances UDG activity, most likely by inducing UDG release via shared minor groove contacts and flipped AP site binding. Thus, AP site binding may couple damage-specific and damage-general steps of BER without requiring direct protein-protein interactions.

Base excision repair initiation revealed by crystal structures and binding kinetics of human uracil-DNA glycosylase with DNA.,Parikh SS, Mol CD, Slupphaug G, Bharati S, Krokan HE, Tainer JA EMBO J. 1998 Sep 1;17(17):5214-26. PMID:9724657<ref>PMID:9724657</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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==See Also==
*[[DNA glycosylase|DNA glycosylase]]
*[[Uracil-DNA glycosylase|Uracil-DNA glycosylase]]
== References ==
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[[Category: Homo sapiens]]
[[Category: Mol, C D]]
[[Category: Tainer, J A]]
[[Category: Alpha/ beta protein]]
[[Category: Dna repair]]
[[Category: Glycosidase]]
[[Category: Glycosylase]]
[[Category: Uracil removal from dna]]