Role of active site tyrosines in dynamic aspects of DNA binding by AP endonuclease

AP endonuclease (AP endo), a key enzyme in repair of abasic sites in DNA, makes a single nick 5′ to the phosphodeoxyribose of an abasic site (AP-site). We recently proposed a novel mechanism, whereby the enzyme uses a key tyrosine (Tyr 171) to directly attack the scissile phosphate of the AP-site. W...

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