5-MCDG antibody, wu:fb44b11 antibody, zgc:110622 antibody, MGC82456 antibody, MGC89441 antibody, E130317C12Rik antibody, JZA-3 antibody, Jza1 antibody, hTDG antibody, thymine DNA glycosylase antibody, thymine DNA glycosylase, tandem duplicate 1 antibody, putative g/t mismatch-specific thymine DNA glycosylase antibody, G/T mismatch-specific thymine DNA glycosylase antibody, thymine DNA glycosylase S homeolog antibody, thymine-DNA glycosylase antibody, TDG antibody, tdg.1 antibody, Smp_149220 antibody, Tsp_05734 antibody, tdg.S antibody, tdg antibody, Tdg antibody
Background
The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the TDG/mug DNA glycosylase family. Thymine-DNA glycosylase (TDG) removes thymine moieties from G/T mismatches by hydrolyzing the carbon-nitrogen bond between the sugar-phosphate backbone of DNA and the mispaired thymine. With lower activity, this enzyme also removes thymine from C/T and T/T mispairings. TDG can also remove uracil and 5-bromouracil from mispairings with guanine. This enzyme plays a central role in cellular defense against genetic mutation caused by the spontaneous deamination of 5-methylcytosine and cytosine. This gene may have a pseudogene in the p arm of chromosome 12.