8-Oxoguanine8-Oxoguanine (8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine, 8-hydroxyguanine, 8-oxo-Gua, or OH8Gua) is one of the most common DNA lesions resulting from reactive oxygen species modifying guanine, and can result in a mismatched pairing with adenine resulting in G to T and C to A substitutions in the genome. Read from the Chembox of the Wikipedia article 8-Oxoguanine, revision 1368123761.

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C5H5N5O2, 167.13 g/mol

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