DNA repair by AlkB

ScienceWeek: "AlkB enzymatically demethylates the DNA bases adenine and
cytosine, unlike the suicidal Ada and Ogt proteins, by oxidative
demethylation: the methyl group is converted to an hydroxymethyl
group which then leaves the base as formaldehyde."

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