MBG Part Two: Lecture 13 Flashcards
What does Most DNA Repair Mechanisms require?
Double stranded DNA - as one nucleotide is being repaired, the complementary strand is acting as a template for the repair.
What does DNA repair have built in?
Redundancy: DNA damage can be repaired by more then one mechanism
What Mechanisms can Repair Single Stranded Sequences?
- Mismatch repair
-Direct repair or reversal of DNA damage - Base-Excision Repair
- Nucleotide-Excision Repair
What Mechanisms can Repair Double Stranded Sequences?
- Homology Directed Repair
- Nonhomologous End Joining
What happens during Mismatch Repair
A mismatched nt will occur, a methylation occurs on the old DNA strand (specifically GATC sequence) which allows for the MMR complex to differentiate the old vs new strand.
The MMR brings the GATC sequence an the mismatch close together and nicks the strand at the GATC and Mismatched Base
What does the MMR do?
Degrade the new strand between the nick and the mismatched base
What does exonuclease do?
They remove nucleotides on the new strand between the GATC sequence and the mismatched base
What does DNA ligase and polymeraserase do?
Fill the gaps using the old strand as the template
In Eukaryotes, what does not happen with MMR?
The methylation that occurs on the old DNA strand
What does direct pair fix?
Thymidine Dimers, other specific types of alterations
How can direct repair fix thymidine dimers induced by radiation?
The enzyme photolyase breaks the covalent bonds between dimers when activated by light
How can direct repair, remove a methyl group?
The enymze O6 methyl guanine methyl transferase removes the methyl group from methylguanine , restoring the base back to guanine
What happens in DNA excision repair?
DNA glycosylases can remove the damaged or modified base, removing just the base not the sugar
What does DNA glycosylases leave?
A apurinic or apryimdinic site
What does AP endonuclease do?
Cleaves the phosphodiester bond