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This review describes the history of studies on alkylation damage of mammalian genomes and its carcinogenic consequences that led to the discovery of a unique DNA repair protein, named MGMT. MGMT repairs O(6)-alkylguanine, a critical mutagenic lesion induced by alkylating agents. The follow-up studies in mammalian cells following the discovery of the ubiquitous repair protein in E. coli are summarized.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17482889 PMCID: PMC2692271 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2007.03.007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: DNA Repair (Amst) ISSN: 1568-7856