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P2s have two abasic residues at the 5' end to reduce primer-dimer formation (unpublished data).
APEs are essential for mammalian cell growth and bacterial survival in the presence of ionizing radiation and DNA mutagens [ 6 ] . They initiate repair of an abasic DNA site by cleaving the phosphodiester backbone 5' of the phosphodeoxyribose.
Although motif 12 contains several highly conserved residues that, according to mutagenesis results (Table 1) contribute to APE1 activity, only His309 is very close to the abasic site in the DNA.
Is the specificity of APE determined by binding 3' to an abasic site?
The importance of such bonds for activity was shown in other work, where huAPE1's binding to the DNA backbone is only inhibited by ethylation of the phosphates two and three positions 3' to an abasic site [ 18 ] . Mutation of R177A, at the end of Molego 6, that binds to this region and to the bases opposite the AP-site had enhanced activity [ 11 ] , while mutations at W280 (Molego 11) and F266 (Molego 10) [ 33 ] reduce activity and, in the latter case, substrate selectivity.