Biochemical reconstitution of TET1–TDG–BER-dependent active DNA demethylation reveals a highly coordinated mechanism

Cytosine methylation is a dynamic DNA modification with the involvement of the base excision repair pathway suspected to be involved in demethylation. Here the authors show that TET1 and TDG interact to target modified bases and coordinate BER to avoid double strand breaks.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alain R. Weber, Claudia Krawczyk, Adam B. Robertson, Anna Kuśnierczyk, Cathrine B. Vågbø, David Schuermann, Arne Klungland, Primo Schär
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10806