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. 2023 Feb 17;11(2):598. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines11020598

Table 2.

Repair mechanisms of BER and NER.

Causing Damage
ROS, alkylating agents, and UV UV and ROS
Injuries
8-OHdG, 8-oxodG, alkylated bases, or mismatch bases Pyrimidine dimers
bulky lesions
BER NER
Recognition of the damage Recognition of the damage
Short patch pathway Long patch pathway GG TC
Bifunctional glycosylases
OGG1, NTH, NEIL1, NEIL2, and NEIL3
Monofunctional glycosylases
UNG, MUTY, MBD4, MPG, and SMUG
Complex Cul4-DDB (XPE):
RBX1, Cul4, DDB1, DDB2
Complex XPC:
XPC, HR23B, CETN2
Complex Cul4-CSA:
RBX1, Cul4, DDB1, CSA, CSB
Chain excision sugar removal Relaxed DNA
APE1 and APE2 APE1 and APE2 Complex TFIIH: CDK7, XPB, TFIIH1, MNAT1, XPD, TFIIH2, CCNH, TTDA, TFIIH3, TFIIH4, XPG, XPA, and RPA
Synthesis Incision, excision, and synthesis of DNA
Incision: XPF and ERCC1
Excision: PCNA, RFC
Synthesis: Polδ and Polε
Dpol, XRCC1, Lig3 Dpol, PCNA, Polδ, Polβ, Polε, Fen1
Ligation
Lig1

ROS: Reactive oxygen species; BER: OGG1: 8-oxoguanina DNA glicosilasa; NTH: Nth-like DNA glycosylase 1; NEIL1: Nei-like DNA glycosylase 1; NEIL2: Nei-like DNA glycosylase 2; NEIL3: Nei-like DNA glycosylase 3; UNG: Uracil DNA glycosylase; MUTY: MutY DNA glycosylase; MBD4: Methyl-CpG binding domain 4 DNA glycosylase; MPG: N-methylpurine DNA glycosylase; SMUG: Single-strand-selective monofunctional uracil-DNA glycosylase 1; APE 1 and 2: Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 and 2; Dpol: Polimerase DNA; XRCC1: X-ray repair cross complementing 1; Lig3: DNA ligase 3; PCNA: Proliferating cell nuclear antigen; Polδ, Polβ, Polε: DNA polimerase; FEN1: Flap endonuclease-1; NER: RBX1: Ubiquitin-protein ligase RBX1; CUL4: Cullin 4; DDB1: DNA damage-binding protein 1; DDB2: DNA damage-binding protein 2; XPC: Complex subunit, DNA damage recognition and repair factor; HR23B: Homolog B, nucleotide excision repair protein; CETN2: Centrin-2; RBX1: E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase RBX1; CSA: DNA excision repair protein ERCC-8; CSB: DNA excision repair protein ERCC-6; CDK7: Cyclin-dependent kinase 7; XPB: DNA excision repair protein ERCC-3; TFII1–4: Transcription initiation factor TFIIH subunit 1–4; MNAT1: CDK-activating kinase assembly factor MAT1; CCNH: Cyclin H; TTDA: TFIIH basal transcription factor complex TTD-A subunit; XPG: DNA excision repair protein ERCC-5; XPA: DNA-repair protein complementing XPA cells; RPA: Replication factor A1; XPF: DNA excision repair protein ERCC-4; ERCC1: DNA excision repair protein ERCC-1; RFC: Replication factor C subunit 1. Database Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEEG).