bab Motif

These motifs are generally found in right handed helix above the plane of the beta sheet

Almost all the proteins containing parallel beta sheets have this motif. 

The helix is generally not seen below the plane of beta sheets                                           

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Eukaryotic cells also repair mismatches and do so using homologs to MutS (called MSH proteins for “MutS homologs”) and MutL (called MLH and PMS

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In BER, A DNA glycosylase recognizes a damaged base (in this case, a uracil) and cleaves between the base and deoxyribose in the backbone.

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n BER,  An AP endonuclease cleaves the phosphodiester backbone near the AP site

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In BER,  DNA polymerase I initiates repair synthesis from the free 3’ hydroxyl at the nick, removing (with its 5’-3’ exonuclease activity) and replacing a portion of the damaged strand. 

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In BER, The nick remaining after DNA polymerase I has dissociated is sealed by DNA ligase.

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Base excision repair of a T∙G mismatch.