Abstract
Using a human cell-free extract, we have recently shown that thymine dimers are removed from DNA in oligonucleotides 27-29 nucleotides in length (Huang, J. C., Svoboda, D. L., Reardon, J. T., and Sancar, A. (1992) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 89, 3664-3668). In this study we find that the excision reaction is dependent on ATP, the excised fragments range in length from 27-32 nucleotides, and have 5'-P and 3'-OH termini. We also found that a thymine-psoralen furan side monoadduct is excised from the DNA with a similar incision pattern, indicating that in humans bulky adducts are removed from DNA by the same enzyme system which hydrolyzes mainly the 22-24th and the 5th phosphodiester bonds 5' and 3', respectively, to the lesion. This incision pattern might be common to eukaryotic excision nucleases as thymine dimers were removed from DNA by the same dual incision pattern by Xenopus laevis oocytes.
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