Abstract
DNA photolyases catalyze the splitting of the cyclobutane ring joining the two dihydropyrimidines of a pyrimidine dimer by a photoinduced electron-transfer reaction. Previous studies concluded that photolyase repairs only the cis-syn form of the eight stereoisomers of the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (Pyr[]Pyr). In this study we found that Escherichia coli photolyase binds to the trans-syn-I isomer of T[]T with about 104-fold lower affinity than the cis-syn isomer but it repairs it relatively efficiently.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 7065-7068 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Biochemistry |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 28 |
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| State | Published - 1993 |