“…Like OGG1, NTH1 belongs to the E. coli NTH family of glycosylases that contain a conserved helix-hairpin-helix motif while the NEIL glycosylases, of which there are three known isoforms NEIL1, NEIL2, and NEIL3, belong to the MUTM/NEI family of glycosylases [Hazra et al, 2002a, b;Dou et al, 2003;Rosenquist et al, 2003]. NEIL1 acts on wide-ranging substrates, including thymine glycols (Tg), 5-hydroxyuracil, further oxidized products of 8-oxoG including guanidinohydantoin (Gh) and spiroiminodihydantoin (Sp), and oxidatively damaged purine lesions including the foramidopyrimidine derivative of adenine (FapyA) or FapyG [Hazra et al, 2002a, b;Dou et al, 2003;Rosenquist et al, 2003;Hailer et al, 2005]. NTH1 is thought to have largely overlapping substrate specificity with NEIL1 except that NTH1 is not able to act on FapyAs or certain steroisomers of Tg [Aspinwall et al, 1997;Dizdaroglu et al, 1999;Rosenquist et al, 2003].…”