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What is deamination and how do cells repair this kind of damage?

What is deamination and how do cells repair this kind of damage?

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The most usual source of DNA damage is the process of Deamination.

Deamination of DNA nucleic bases is defined as the spontaneous loosing of amino group (-NH2) and finally result in unusual and abnormal bases.

Base excitsion repair is used by the cells in this mechanism the damaged cellular distorting, non-helix, DNA base lesions removed by several enzymes such as glycosylase and endonuclease. For example Spontaneous deamination is nothing but the hydrolysis of thymine to uracil which can be repaired by glycosylase enzyme through base excision repair.   

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