This article presents new data on nucleotide incision repair
(NIR) activity of apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease Apn1 of Saccharomyces
cerevisiae, which is known as a key player of the base excision DNA
repair (BER) pathway, see “Yeast structural gene (APN1) for the major apurinic
endonuclease: homology to Escherichia coli endonuclease IV” [1], “Abasic sites in DNA: repair and biological
consequences in Saccharomyces cerevisiae” [2] and “Characterisation of new substrate specificities of
Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae AP endonucleases” [3]. The characterization of NIR activity
of wild type Apn1 and mutant form Ape1 H83A were made by denaturing PAGE analysis,
and MD simulations of Apn1 complexed with DNA containing 5,6-dihydro-2′-deoxyuridine
(DHU) and 2-aminopurine (2-aPu) residues. This data article is associated to the
manuscript titled “Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease Apn1 from
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is recruited to the nucleotide
incision repair pathway: kinetic and structural features” [4].Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY
license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).