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Oxidation of a guanine nucleotide in DNA yields an 8-oxoguanine
nucleotide (oxoG) and is a mutagenic event in the genome.
Due to different arrangements of hydrogen-bond donors and acceptors, oxoG can affect the secondary structure of nucleic acids. We
have investigated base pairing preferences of oxoG in the
core of a tetrahelical G-quadruplex structure, adopted by analogues
of d(TG4T). Using spectroscopic methods, we have shown
that G-quartets can be fully substituted with oxoG nucleobases
to form an oxoG-quartet with a revamped hydrogen-bonding
scheme. While an oxoG-quartet can be incorporated into
the G-quadruplex core without distorting the phosphodiester backbone,
larger dimensions of the central cavity change the cation localization
and exchange properties.
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Affiliation(s)
- Simon Aleksič
- Slovenian NMR Centre, National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.,Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 113, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Slovenian NMR Centre, National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Slovenian NMR Centre, National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.,Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 113, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.,EN-FIST Centre of Excellence, Trg OF 13, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Kim HW, Rhee YM, Shin SK. Charge-dipole interactions in G-quadruplex thrombin-binding aptamer. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 20:21068-21074. [PMID: 30074033 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp03050b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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DNAs form various structures through hydrogen-bonding, base-stacking and electrostatic interactions. Although these noncovalent interactions are known to be cooperative in stabilizing a G-quadruplex (G4) structure of DNA, we find from all-atom molecular dynamics simulations that the electrostatic charge-dipole interaction is competitive with both hydrogen-bonding and base-stacking interactions. For the thrombin-binding aptamer (TBA) forming a chair-type antiparallel G4 structure, we have examined effects of an intercalating metal ion [K+, Sr2+, Mn+: an ion having a charge of n+ (n = 1-4) with the ionic radius of K+] on structural properties and noncovalent interactions. When K+ in the TBA·K+ complex is replaced with Sr2+, guanine dipoles in the two G-tetrads are realigned toward the central metal ion, thereby distorting the planar G4 geometry. Replacing K+ with Sr2+ significantly enhances the charge-dipole interaction but substantially reduces the number of hydrogen bonds in the G-tetrads. In the case of TBA·Mn+ complexes, as the charge n increases, the charge-dipole interaction increases but both of the hydrogen-bonding and base-stacking interactions decrease. These results suggest that the charge-dipole interaction realigning guanine dipoles in the G-tetrads is not cooperative but competitive with both hydrogen-bonding and base-stacking interactions favoring the planar G-tetrad geometry. Obviously, the charge state of an intercalating metal ion is as important as the ionic radius in forming a stable G4 structure. Thus, a delicate balance between these competing noncovalent interactions makes the chair-type antiparallel G4 structure of TBA selective for intercalating metal ions.
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- Hyun Woo Kim
- Center for Molecular Modeling and Simulation, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 34114, Korea
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Sagi J. In What Ways Do Synthetic Nucleotides and Natural Base Lesions Alter the Structural Stability of G-Quadruplex Nucleic Acids? J Nucleic Acids 2017; 2017:1641845. [PMID: 29181193 PMCID: PMC5664352 DOI: 10.1155/2017/1641845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2017] [Accepted: 08/15/2017] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Synthetic analogs of natural nucleotides have long been utilized for structural studies of canonical and noncanonical nucleic acids, including the extensively investigated polymorphic G-quadruplexes (GQs). Dependence on the sequence and nucleotide modifications of the folding landscape of GQs has been reviewed by several recent studies. Here, an overview is compiled on the thermodynamic stability of the modified GQ folds and on how the stereochemical preferences of more than 70 synthetic and natural derivatives of nucleotides substituting for natural ones determine the stability as well as the conformation. Groups of nucleotide analogs only stabilize or only destabilize the GQ, while the majority of analogs alter the GQ stability in both ways. This depends on the preferred syn or anti N-glycosidic linkage of the modified building blocks, the position of substitution, and the folding architecture of the native GQ. Natural base lesions and epigenetic modifications of GQs explored so far also stabilize or destabilize the GQ assemblies. Learning the effect of synthetic nucleotide analogs on the stability of GQs can assist in engineering a required stable GQ topology, and exploring the in vitro action of the single and clustered natural base damage on GQ architectures may provide indications for the cellular events.
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Affiliation(s)
- Janos Sagi
- Rimstone Laboratory, RLI, Carlsbad, CA 92010, USA
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Kejnovská I, Bednárová K, Renciuk D, Dvoráková Z, Školáková P, Trantírek L, Fiala R, Vorlícková M, Sagi J. Clustered abasic lesions profoundly change the structure and stability of human telomeric G-quadruplexes. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:4294-4305. [PMID: 28369584 PMCID: PMC5416849 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2016] [Accepted: 03/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Ionizing radiation produces clustered damage to DNA which is difficult to repair and thus more harmful than single lesions. Clustered lesions have only been investigated in dsDNA models. Introducing the term 'clustered damage to G-quadruplexes' we report here on the structural effects of multiple tetrahydrofuranyl abasic sites replacing loop adenines (A/AP) and tetrad guanines (G/AP) in quadruplexes formed by the human telomere d[AG3(TTAG3)3] (htel-22) and d[TAG3(TTAG3)3TT] (htel-25) in K+ solutions. Single to triple A/APs increased the population of parallel strands in their structures by stabilizing propeller type loops, shifting the antiparallel htel-22 into hybrid or parallel quadruplexes. In htel-25, the G/APs inhibited the formation of parallel strands and these adopted antiparallel topologies. Clustered G/AP and A/APs reduced the thermal stability of the wild-type htel-25. Depending on position, A/APs diminished or intensified the damaging effect of the G/APs. Taken together, clustered lesions can disrupt the topology and stability of the htel quadruplexes and restrict their conformational space. These in vitro results suggest that formation of clustered lesions in the chromosome capping structure can result in the unfolding of existing G-quadruplexes which can lead to telomere shortening.
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- Iva Kejnovská
- Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i., Královopolská 135, CZ-612 65 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i., Královopolská 135, CZ-612 65 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i., Královopolská 135, CZ-612 65 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i., Královopolská 135, CZ-612 65 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i., Královopolská 135, CZ-612 65 Brno, Czech Republic
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- CEITEC-Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, CZ-625 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- CEITEC-Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, CZ-625 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i., Královopolská 135, CZ-612 65 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Rimstone Laboratory, RLI, Carlsbad, CA 92010, USA
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Zhao Z, Lin F, Ye H, Huang R, Xu X. Effects of modified-guanosine on the stability of G-triplex. Tetrahedron Lett 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2016.10.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Cheong VV, Lech CJ, Heddi B, Phan AT. Inverting the G-Tetrad Polarity of a G-Quadruplex by Using Xanthine and 8-Oxoguanine. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201507034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Cheong VV, Lech CJ, Heddi B, Phan AT. Inverting the G-Tetrad Polarity of a G-Quadruplex by Using Xanthine and 8-Oxoguanine. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 55:160-3. [PMID: 26563582 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201507034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2015] [Revised: 09/04/2015] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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G-quadruplexes are four-stranded nucleic acid structures that are built from consecutively stacked guanine tetrad (G-tetrad) assemblies. The simultaneous incorporation of two guanine base lesions, xanthine (X) and 8-oxoguanine (O), within a single G-tetrad of a G-quadruplex was recently shown to lead to the formation of a stable G⋅G⋅X⋅O tetrad. Herein, a judicious introduction of X and O into a human telomeric G-quadruplex-forming sequence is shown to reverse the hydrogen-bond polarity of the modified G-tetrad while preserving the original folding topology. The control exerted over G-tetrad polarity by joint X⋅O modification will be valuable for the design and programming of G-quadruplex structures and their properties.
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- Vee Vee Cheong
- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371 (Singapore)
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- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371 (Singapore)
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- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371 (Singapore)
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- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371 (Singapore).
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Cheong VV, Heddi B, Lech CJ, Phan AT. Xanthine and 8-oxoguanine in G-quadruplexes: formation of a G·G·X·O tetrad. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:10506-14. [PMID: 26400177 PMCID: PMC4666386 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2015] [Accepted: 07/28/2015] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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G-quadruplexes are four-stranded structures built from stacked G-tetrads (G·G·G·G), which are planar cyclical assemblies of four guanine bases interacting through Hoogsteen hydrogen bonds. A G-quadruplex containing a single guanine analog substitution, such as 8-oxoguanine (O) or xanthine (X), would suffer from a loss of a Hoogsteen hydrogen bond within a G-tetrad and/or potential steric hindrance. We show that a proper arrangement of O and X bases can reestablish the hydrogen-bond pattern within a G·G·X·O tetrad. Rational incorporation of G·G·X·O tetrads in a (3+1) G-quadruplex demonstrated a similar folding topology and thermal stability to that of the unmodified G-quadruplex. pH titration conducted on X·O-modified G-quadruplexes indicated a protonation-deprotonation equilibrium of X with a pKa ∼6.7. The solution structure of a G-quadruplex containing a G·G·X·O tetrad was determined, displaying the same folding topology in both the protonated and deprotonated states. A G-quadruplex containing a deprotonated X·O pair was shown to exhibit a more electronegative groove compared to that of the unmodified one. These differences are likely to manifest in the electronic properties of G-quadruplexes and may have important implications for drug targeting and DNA-protein interactions.
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- Vee Vee Cheong
- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637371 Singapore
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- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637371 Singapore
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- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637371 Singapore
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- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637371 Singapore
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Roembke BT, Nakayama S, Sintim HO. Nucleic acid detection using G-quadruplex amplification methodologies. Methods 2013; 64:185-98. [PMID: 24135042 PMCID: PMC7129037 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2013.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2013] [Revised: 09/19/2013] [Accepted: 10/02/2013] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the use of G-quadruplex labels to detect various analytes, including DNA/RNA, proteins, metals and other metabolites. In this review, we focus on strategies for the detection of nucleic acids, using G-quadruplexes as detection labels or as enzyme labels that amplify detection signals. Methods to detect other analytes are briefly mentioned. We highlight various strategies, including split G-quadruplex, hemin-G-quadruplex conjugates, molecular beacon G-quadruplex or inhibited G-quadruplex probes. The tandem use of G-quadruplex labels with various DNA-modifying enzymes, such as polymerases (used for rolling circle amplification), exonucleases and endonucleases, is also discussed. Some of the detection modalities that are discussed in this review include fluorescence, colorimetric, chemiluminescence, and electrochemical methods.
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Doluca O, Withers JM, Filichev VV. Molecular engineering of guanine-rich sequences: Z-DNA, DNA triplexes, and G-quadruplexes. Chem Rev 2013; 113:3044-83. [PMID: 23391174 DOI: 10.1021/cr300225q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Osman Doluca
- Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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An in silico study of the differential effect of oxidation on two biologically relevant G-quadruplexes: possible implications in oncogene expression. PLoS One 2012; 7:e43735. [PMID: 22928025 PMCID: PMC3425515 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2012] [Accepted: 07/23/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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G-quadruplex structures, formed from guanine rich sequences, have previously been shown to be involved in various physiological processes including cancer-related gene expression. Furthermore, G-quadruplexes have been found in several oncogene promoter regions, and have been shown to play a role in the regulation of gene expression. The mutagenic properties of oxidative stress on DNA have been widely studied, as has the association with carcinogenesis. Guanine is the most susceptible nucleotide to oxidation, and as such, G-rich sequences that form G-quadruplexes can be viewed as potential “hot-spots” for DNA oxidation. We propose that oxidation may destabilise the G-quadruplex structure, leading to its unfolding into the duplex structure, affecting gene expression. This would imply a possible mechanism by which oxidation may impact on oncogene expression. This work investigates the effect of oxidation on two biologically relevant G-quadruplex structures through 500 ns molecular dynamics simulations on those found in the promoter regions of the c-Kit and c-Myc oncogenes. The results show oxidation having a detrimental effect on stability of the structure, substantially destabilising the c-Kit quadruplex, and with a more attenuated effect on the c-Myc quadruplex. Results are suggestive of a novel route for oxidation-mediated oncogenesis and may have wider implications for genome stability.
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Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize: D. Seidel / Göttingen Academy of Sciences Chemistry Prize: Jörg Hartig / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Louis Jeantet, and Ernst Schering Prizes: M. Mann / AkzoNobel UK Science Award: P. Bruce / Robert Burwell Lectureship in Cata. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201201952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Carl-Duisberg-Gedächtnispreis: D. Seidel / Chemie-Preis der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen: Jörg Hartig / Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-, Louis-Jeantet- und Ernst-Schering-Preis: M. Mann / AkzoNobel UK Science Award: P. Bruce / Robert Burwell Lectur. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201201952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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